Currículo para la formación en investigación: Una apuesta de la Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos

Abstract

This document is part of the macro project “Research with a purpose” and
specifically addresses a project of the Institutional Development Plan whose objective
is to promote the appropriation of research-innovation capacities, through training,
immersion and practical processes that allow consolidating students’ profile discipline
and critical-scientific thinking. The experience gathered in the document specifically
presents the final result of an institutional decision regarding the need to structure the
research area in the Institution’s undergraduate degrees, after analyzing that, although
all undergraduates involved curricular subjects in the area, these were disjointed,
unstructured and did not allow the student to train for research in a competent manner.
Hence, a review of antecedents and trends has been carried out that finally, made it
possible to make an articulated and precise curricular proposal that is expected to
contribute to the formation of a community exercised in research processes. So far,
the proposal has been institutionally approved, the challenge is to carry it out, monitor
and evaluate this implementation in the long term. While much has been said on the
subject of formative research and research training, not all has been said, it is a far reaching affair with no definitive evidence or results.