Strategy for the curriculum renewal of the Psychopedagogical Studies Discipline in Spanish Language Teaching

Abstract

The curricular update in higher education is a process that demands special attention, because it affects the training of future professionals, who have to respond to the socio-economic and cultural demands of the context where they work, so this research was directed to design a strategy that will pay tribute to the improvement of the curriculum design of the Discipline Psychopedagogical Studies of the Degree in Spanish Language for Non-Speakers of the University of Havana, which through the use of the dialectical-materialist method, as rector of research and combination of theoretical, empirical and statistical, allowed to check the problem of research and the establishment of their trends.Subsequently the foundations of the strategy were established, the principles the collective and cooperative character in the teaching of the foreign language and the flexible and contextual recognition of the formative practice of the teaching of a foreign language; the essential relationships between the profile of the professional, the profession of teaching the Spanish language and the learning of the Spanish language; the structure of the strategy was designed, which has three specific strategic actions: Sensitization to professors and managers, Training to the structures of the academic level in strategic management of the curriculum in higher education: particularities in the teaching of foreign languages and the implementation of improvement in the discipline.