Abstract

CASILLAS-GUTIERREZ, Celerino. Curriculum, Ideology and Critical Skills in University Teaching. Educación [online]. 2019, vol.43, n.1, pp.698-733.  Epub June 01, 2019. ISSN 2215-2644.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v43i1.30728.

This article emphasizes the possibility of developing critical skills among university faculty. It considers the current state of education within a context of globalization, neoliberalism and scientific technological development through an educational skills-based focus. It also addresses understanding both the formal and hidden sense and meaning behind a curriculum, how it permeates higher learning institutions as a result of how its contents is organized, distributed and reproduced through the knowledge of the teaching faculty. The objective of this study is to acknowledge the use and role of this ideology within hidden curriculums and the advantages of developing critical skills on the individual and collective transformation of the university faculty. The conclusions pursue the possibility of developing the critical skills of the faculty through practice, subjectivity, personal, psychological, affective and political experience as well as its objectivity, which refers to the material, social, economic and political realms. It also encompasses acknowledging others within the classroom in order to attain emancipation and autonomy and, thus, transform the world.

Keywords : Critical skills capacity; Educational practice; Curriculum; Ideology.

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