Abstract

The skills for the 21st century are a group of cognitive, social, emotional and digital skills that will help today’s students face the challenges and problems that will arise when they became citizens of the knowledge society. This article compares reference frameworks and proposes an eco-systemic model of skills that summarizes the diversity that exists from and for the Latin American context. Based on a case methodology and a comparative descriptive analysis, concordance, discrepancies and inconsistencies were evidenced. An eco-systemic theoretical model was created that recategorizes dimensions, redefines and orders a set of skills granting theoretical support for educational innovation processes in Latin America and Chile.