Curricules for life, change and the future, in academic programs of tertiary education

Abstract

This paper presents, fundamentally, a synthesis of the dense range of definitions and existing concepts on curriculum, although it emphasizes in a special way in the explanation of what the “curricula for life, change and the future” are (would be), aspect this, in which little is thought at the time of designing the curricula of the institutions. It is not known exactly, if "that little thinking" is something intentional, or if it obeys in good faith, the need to train, above all, technicians and technologists, competent in their trades, neglecting the integral training of the human being, which is so lacking it is doing to the bulk of humanity. It is for this reason that the concept of curriculum for life, change and the future is broken down, although very synthetically, aimed at framing the training of tertiary education students. Although this denomination is not well known in our environment, it is a fact that, in Colombia, there is that level of education. Also reflected in this writing, the methodological strategy as this type of curriculum could be contemplated, for the achievement of the objectives of tertiary education, and is giving room to the analysis and reflection on certain themes and problems, as transversal or integrating axes of the different curricular components.