Currículo por competencias: una aproximación para la carrera de agronomía en Argentina

Abstract

Abstract

Agronomy was instituted in the middle of last century, based on the agricultural production needs at the time. The professional profile did not change and remains the generalist model. The agricultural production system has expanded enormously and change in the last 20 years. This translates into the need for a paradigm shift, because teaching has traditionally based on content and now intends to switch to a new model based on skills, where students actually have to learn to do things more than retaining encyclopedic information in their area of specialty. The methodology for designing comprehensive professional competency-based curriculum provides a modular structure to facilitate the construction of comprehensive skills to prepare the professional training to the workplace but with full social and historical consciousness. This methodology involves consideration of two basic components of professional competence: the task and moreover the values​​, attitudes, knowledge and skills required to integrate the performance of these. At each site, the profession is exercised and is conceived in different ways. So we must not look for uniformity, and we need to respect differences in making curriculum design. The implementation is part of the design and should be translated into action, they should do with all the actors involved. It is impossible to make a change without generating a consensus on most participants convinced of the need for institutional change and determined to make this possible.

Keywords:

agronomy, curriculum, competence, university