Master's Degree in Education - Virtual Modality
Professional Profile
Graduates of the Master's in Education will stand out for their leadership in social and educational transformation processes and their critical thinking, strengthening educational models at a national level and in the Latin American context, distinguishing themselves in the sector and in the communities they impact.
General Information
Applicant Profile
○ Graduates, professionals in education and human and social sciences, community managers, education researchers with experience in diverse populations, project leaders promoting school-community relations.
○ Teachers or education professionals, in formal or informal practice.
○ Professionals who see education as a basis for social transformation.
Occupational Profile
From the perspectives of inclusion and interculturality, the Master's program trains:
○ Educators with a social perspective, with knowledge and mastery of community research processes, in line with the needs, expectations, and demands of the environment.
○ Experts in the interpretation, contextualization, and design of plans, projects, and pedagogical strategies to promote inclusive education or intercultural education in different contexts.
○ Teachers capable of guiding, designing, promoting, and advising transversal, curricular, and didactic strategies.
Educators capable of designing social transformation strategies from their professional practice.
Why study with us?
○ Supported by two highly accredited undergraduate programs.
○ The training of our graduates has addressed the challenges of 21st-century education, as well as the challenges of sustainable human development proposed by UNESCO.
Program Objective
The Master's in Education program is committed to the social, critical, and transformative training of teachers and educational agents from the perspectives of inclusive education and intercultural education. The main purpose of the educator professionalization program is the construction of knowledge in articulation with the needs of the environment.
Master's Distinctive Features
○ Our Socio-Critical approach trains teachers and identifies education and research as tools for social transformation.
○ The articulation between disciplinary and investigative training ensures that the areas of specialization generate pedagogical reflection and knowledge production. We understand education as a pedagogical strategy and a response to social problems, and research as a tool to address the needs of the educational sector and communities.
○ Intercultural experience from new competencies and research mobility.
○ Development of a project with social impact and transformation in the community or work environment as an internship
Curriculum
Semester 1
| Subject | Seminar | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CORE TRAINING | Education and Sustainability in Latin America | 3 |
| SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | Policies and Developments in Inclusive Education | 3 |
| Critical and Transformative Intercultural Education | 3 | |
| METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH TRAINING | Fundamentals and Approaches to Social and Educational Research | 3 |
| COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING | Elective I | 2 |
Semester 2
| Subject | Seminar | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CORE TRAINING | Critical and Decolonial Pedagogies | 3 |
| SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | Pedagogical and Community Strategies for Inclusive Education | 3 |
| Learning and Cultural Diversity | 3 | |
| METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH TRAINING | Action Research | 3 |
| COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING | Elective II | 2 |
Semester 3
| Subject | Seminar | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CORE TRAINING | Curricular Diversification and Flexibility | 3 |
| SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | Pedagogical and Community Strategies for Inclusive Education | 3 |
| Intercultural Citizenship | 3 | |
| METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH TRAINING | Participatory Action Research | 3 |
| COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING | Elective III | 2 |
Semester 4
| Subject | Seminar | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CORE TRAINING | Evaluation of Inclusive Culture and Intercultural Practices | 3 |
| SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | Pedagogical and Community Strategies for Inclusive Education | 3 |
| Gender Perspectives and Education | 3 | |
| RESEARCH METHODOLOGY TRAINING | Internship | 3 |
| COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING | Elective VI | 2 |