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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Competence-based training and pedagogical practices

Authors

  • Tomás Eduardo Garay Universidad de Atacama

Abstract

The present article analyzes the curriculum redesign that law career has been undergone at Atacama University (UDA), it is a process in which has been involved a paradigm of the formation by competences in its learning plan. For this reason, the pedagogical challenges involved in the acceptance of this approach will be studied and the methodology usually used in the teaching-learning process of law will be also revised and updated. Finally, it is going to be determined if the training based on competence has as the only purpose to train a qualified professional to respond to the demands of the labor market by over an intellectual dimension that in addition, it includes the development of legal knowledge and background.

Keywords:

Competences, competences-based training, pedagogical practices, legal education

Author Biography

Tomás Eduardo Garay, Universidad de Atacama

Lawyer and academic from the Faculty of Law of the University of Atacama. He is studying the Master's program in Education, Curriculum and Evaluation of the Faculty of Humanities and Education of the University of Atacama