The curriculum concepts and its significance in designing of a curricular doctorate in Stomatology

Authors

  • Dadonim Vila Morales Facultad de Ciencias Médicas "Finlay-Albarrán". Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Keywords:

curriculum, contributing curricular doctorate, curricular theory.

Abstract

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.

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Published

2011-07-19

How to Cite

1.
Vila Morales D. The curriculum concepts and its significance in designing of a curricular doctorate in Stomatology. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2011 Jul. 19 [cited 2025 Feb. 5];48(3):301-14. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2726

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History and Pedagogy

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