SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1629392
Research Trends in the Development of Generic Skills
Provisionally accepted
Diana Marleny Ramírez-Ramírez1
Erica Agudelo1
Jesús Alberto Jiménez García2
Alejandro Valencia-Arias2*
Sebastián Cardona-Acevedo1
Jackeline Valencia3Erick Ynoquio2- 1Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia
- 2Lord of Sipan University, Chiclayo, Peru
- 3Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile
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Generic skills, or soft skills, are transversal competencies crucial for professional success, encompassing cognitive, social, and emotional abilities. Leadership behaviors during methodology implementation reveal a lack of understanding of soft skills development in specific sectors. Using PRISMA-2020-guided bibliometrics, results show growing interest in 2021 and 2022, with Chan, Studies In Higher Education, Australia, and the United Kingdom as key references. The theme evolved from "Transferable Skills" to "Higher Education" and "Engineering Education", with clusters like "General Education", "Higher Education", and "Gamification". Concepts like 'employability' and 'leadership' drive a proposed research agenda integrating new methodologies and technologies.
Keywords: Soft skills, PRISMA 2020, Collaborative Learning, Crosscutting Competencies, Leadership
Received: 15 May 2025; Accepted: 11 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ramírez-Ramírez, Agudelo, Jiménez García, Valencia-Arias, Cardona-Acevedo, Valencia and Ynoquio. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Alejandro Valencia-Arias, Lord of Sipan University, Chiclayo, Peru
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