Resumen

VILA MORALES, Dadonim. The curriculum concepts and its significance in designing of a curricular doctorate in Stomatology. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2011, vol.48, n.3, pp. 301-314. ISSN 0034-7507.

The curricular design is an essential stage of teaching-learning process. Depending of the theoretical and epistemologic concept on curriculum, will be the structuring of teaching process and of the type of pedagogy to be applied. In Cuba, the Stomatology Faculty has a broad experience of 110 years in the training of human resources; however it is considered that the postgraduate training in this science must to be strengthened. That is aim of present paper was to assess the curricular concepts applicable to doctoral training of postgraduate in Stomatology and to propose a critical location regarding the concept of curriculum, creating theoretical bases for the design of a contributing curricular doctorate in this profession. The curriculum conceptual position of present study was totally coincidental with the concept of the Improvement of Higher Education Center of University of La Habana, since emphasize the structural-formal plane, where the worked out project is specified expressed in documents, regulations, rules of the official curriculum and at the same time the process-practical plane, that is, the curricular carrying out process identified with the postgraduate educational practice.

Palabras clave : Curriculum; contributing curricular doctorate; curricular theory.

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