A panoramic review of soft skills training in university students

Abstract Universities are currently assuming a fundamental challenge in the construction of society, for which they are called upon to pay special attention in the training of soft skills as an essential part of the integral formation. The aim of this theoretical study is to provide the pedagogue with a clear conceptualization based on a panoramic review of the literature of classical authors, specifying the general definition of the concept and of each of the skills, reviewing the theory of social learning as a reference model for training, and presenting the main practices and strategies to be promoted in the context of higher education to develop them. It is concluded emphasizing the need to build, modify or transform teaching practice in order to promote a scenario of higher education focusing on the parallel development of being and doing.