Fundamentos de la enseñanza por competencias a nivel de postgrado en dos universidades públicas Chilenas

Abstract

The foundations of the educational practice of graduate studies are identified in the context of the teaching by competence in two Chilean public universities. The study, qualitative, not experimental and exploratory, was carried out by means of the analysis of the academic activities of professors of diverse profiles. The data were processed by means of the analysis of content of the written speeches collected from a sample of 66 professors. Among the main results a dichotomy is found between declaration and educational practice that is focused in the traditional pattern of teaching, of cognitive character, more than in the development of capacities associated to the teaching by competence. In one of the universities, ambivalent conceptions are evidenced that locate them in the pattern of traditional teaching, by objective. In the other one, an educational profile focused on professionalism is observed.