Algunos elementos contextuales que tensionan y demandan a los constructores curriculares de la educación universitaria

el escenario de los proyectos de mejoramiento de la calidad de la educación superior (MECESUP), Chile

Abstract

In this paper are presented some reflexions from a curriculum critic perspective, about the demands that troubled who construct curriculum in the higher education, when is implemenled y developed MECESUP program (Programa de Mejoramiento de la Calidad y la Equidad de la Educación Superior) Under the context of deep unevenness in the quality of social benefils - according to the uneven salary of people - with a population that grows oíd and the production and the accelerated outdating of disciplinary knowledge who demands the permanent checking of contents - the academics who construct curriculum face this complex scenery. In this context are mix and confuse the historical and emergent demands of people, the interest of collectives such us the university, the enterprise, and the State - that promote the adscription to a model of development of professionals since Based Competencies Curricular Model. This multiplicity of demands, determines that the curricular builders take decisión that privilege some and doing so, mobilize their interest and ideologies for the selection and organization for the plans of study. Is not just revealed in the contents, but in the means of doing, being and living in the world. This situation allows to position the process of curricular construction in a space key for the promotion of social change or the persistence of unevenness.