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GONZALEZ GARCIA, Victoria. The institutional pedagogical mandate: which human profile to educate?. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.3, pp.745-773. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v17i3.29620.

This essay presents research findings "Linking Education, Curriculum and Teaching: The Case of the careers of the University of Costa Rica re-certified by SINAES". This research approaches the education as the training process that concerns to human beings. Also, it proposes an Institutional Pedagogic Mandate created with the generic description of a graduated human being profile from this university. This profile or Institutional Pedagogical Mandate, is proposed as a guide for the curricular and didactic improvement and it was built from the work of different professors, the existing guidelines in institutional documents and interviews with people who coordinate efforts related to this topic. Moreover, the “Institutional Pedagogic Mandate” is based on the mission of the university, as is denominated in the essay. Due to that mandate, there was done a consideration about the origin of the University of Costa Rica in order to identify the context of its creation, the influence of the educative Costa Rican model and the current pertinence of the mission from the organic statute of the University of Costa Rica. Based on that academic task it is created the profile to guide the different curricular efforts develop in the institution and another initiatives of professors training. It is concluded that the profile reflects the university’s ideal from the de desire or aspiration which guides this High educational institution with the reason for being of the university.

Palabras clave : pedagogy; higher education; graduate profile; education institutional mandate.

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