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” andspecifically addresses a project of the Institutional Development Plan whose objectiveis to promote the appropriation of research-innovation capacities, through training,immersion and practical processes that allow consolidating students’ profile disciplineand critical-scientific thinking. The experience gathered in the document specificallypresents the final result of an institutional decision regarding the need to structure theresearch area in the Institution’s undergraduate degrees, after analyzing that, althoughall 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 itpossible to make an articulated and precise curricular proposal that is expected tocontribute 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, monitorand evaluate this implementation in the long term. While much has been said on thesubject of formative research and research training, not all has been said, it is a far reaching affair with no definitive evidence or results.