Continuous curriculum updating: An alternative approach to periodical reformulation in university
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University curriculum, continuous updating, curriculum professors’ practicesAbstract
Research on curriculum continuous updating is reported (CCU); the objective was to test a methodology and its technological database device. The hypothesis considers that CCU allows the professor’s creativity and brings closer the prescribed curriculum with the curriculum-in-use. A CCU methodology and its database (BDW 2.0) were designed. They were tested with 22 professors from three universities (2 Mexican and 1 Chilean), and they produced 85 records. The prescribed curriculum is a power and exclusion dispositive that provokes an anti-democratic education and diminishes the professors’ pedagogical freedom. The results show the types of modifications used in daily classroom work. These modifications are not usually recorded, and the valuable experience of professors is lost. The proposed methodology allows the systematic recording of this as it provides an informative and historical archive for the CCU. The conclusions account for the relevance of teachers’ curriculum practices in the curriculum in use and imply bringing teachers’ voices into the prescribed curriculum. That is, the currere occupies the hegemonic place instead of the mandated curriculum.
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