REVIEWING THE MEXICAN CURRICULUM
Por:
Zorrilla, Juan F.
Publicada:
1 ene 2016
Resumen:
Mexican Education has undergone a major overhaul in the last nine years.
This reform process includes: a professional teaching civil service
instituted at the federal level in 2013; the inclusion, in 2012, of
Upper Secondary Education (USE) as part of compulsory education; a new
revised national curriculum - K to 9th grade - approved in 2011; and the
introduction in 2008 of a National Common Curriculum Framework for USE,
with an approach based on competences. The keystone of this process is
the new role assigned, in 2013, to the National Institute for the
Evaluation of Education (INEE) in the monitoring and the assessment of
the national education system. The INEE was granted autonomy and
extensive attributes in that respect. Some of these attributes include
issuing mandatory recommendations to the Federal Ministry of Education
(SEP). Recommendations have to be validated by data and research. Part
of the research sought by INEE in regard to the design compulsory
education curriculum was formally required to the Education and
University Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of
Mexico in April 2015. Some of the major perspectives obtained from such
a study are presented here.
Filiaciones:
Zorrilla, Juan F.:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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