To be honest, one thing that kinda bugs me in this paper is how they make transversal skills sound pretty clear and well-defined, but then at the same time they admit that the frameworks around them are all over the place. Like, they try to group the skills into these four categories, cognitive, social-emotional, well-being, and citizenship, but honestly in real life most of these skills are super overlapping or shift around depending on the context. They sort of just skip over that messiness like it’s not a big deal, which I think it is.
Another thing is, they go on about how transversal skills are super important for society and future jobs and all, but like, they don’t really show enough hard evidence to support all that. I mean, where’s the real data? No strong cross-cultural studies or long-term tracking that shows these skills actually improve outcomes. So some parts felt more like educated guessing than conclusions from actual results.