DEVELOPMENT CURRICULAR PROCESSES TO PROMOTE IN STUDENTS THE ACQUISITION OF COMPETENCES IN AND FOR LIFE.

Abstract

This scientific article presents the first findings on the study of curricular development for the promotion of skills in and for life in professional technicians from the Eleodoro Pineda Technical School. The methodological procedure is articulated from a socio-critical paradigm, a qualitative approach, a research-action method under the modality of critical curricular research. The information was systematized in reflective diaries through participant observation, a cycle of reflection-action was opened to critically understand in the source triangulation the felt needs with a view to revealing the emerging categories and a cycle of collective evaluation-construction with the intention to register with the co-investigators the possible proposals for change. Finally, we understand that curriculum development is focused on undertaking change actions in the teaching and learning processes, a task that evokes (a) critically rethinking the elements of the curriculum, (b) generating new spaces for learning, (c) designing informative curricular materials and audiovisual, (d) promote training experiences and professional practices that take as a principle the use of advanced technologies, applications and techno-artifacts to recreate new processes in the field of training professional technicians in commerce.