El currículo universitario desde la perspectiva crítica

Abstract

In this article, the author presents his proposal to his academic peers starting from eminent political positions on the commanding curricular structures which, from the critical perspective, barely contribute to the formation of professionals with the capacity to generate knowledge, develop science and improve life conditions of their society. Professor Yepes tangentially mentions the main theoretical approaches to curriculum and its goals and limitations, to get to the argumentative development which privileges the critical perspective of curriculum as a democratic and participative possibility for the transformation of the commanding educational structures. To achieve this purpose, he sketches the necessity of departing from the research proposals which expose the intention of the official curriculum with its prescriptive character in order to allow transformational proposals arising from features which should equally be assessed according to their goals and limitations, taking into account, their specific contexts of intervention. In this proposal, the idea of the construction and the autonomous design of the university curriculum structures is made evident through the purpose of designing its own destiny in harmony with the specific conditions of each institutional context.

Keywords:

Currículo

Enfoque Crítico

Política Educativa

Investigación

Autonomía

Autodeterminación

Transformación

Curriculum

Critical Focus

Educational Policies

Investigation

Autonomy

Self-determination

Transformation

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