Towards new horizons in the study of curriculum

Abstract

The purpose of this study is a critical approach to the master’s degree in high school education program (MEMS 2014). Which emerges from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacionadel Estado de Chihuahua (UPNECH) campus Parral, that in the light of the theory of the curriculum and the training of professors, it intends to reveal the subjection that the educational policy exerts on the university processes in the construction of the curriculum, reducing more and more the spaces of criticism and academic autonomy, which prevents maintain the ideological-political approach of the university in the programs. It invites the reader to consider emerging curricular perspectives and affirm the crucial role of the university in the protection of an education with democratic social values. It is a concluded research, with a qualitative approach and a critical hermeneutical method that considers the biases and limitations of the social, economic and political forces that act on the researcher (Alvarez and Gayou, 2005) and the deep hermeneutics of Ricoeur (Thompson, 1993) , which uses both interpretive and explanatory methods in a hermeneutic circle, with techniques of observation, interview and analysis of documents, seen in the light of curriculum theory.