Projeto Tuning América Latina em universidades brasileiras: uma análise da afinação educacional superior ao modelo europeu

Abstract

The convergence of higher education both in European countries as Latin American bloc, among others , guided by the forces of globalization and its demands have become increasingly growing in the definition and execution of tasks on the training of skilled manpower related to meet labor demands . Taking into account that in Europe there was a "fine tuning " of educational curriculum alignment structures for the European area of higher education as the market demands and interests of the signatory countries and in parallel the accession of Latin American countries on the European model . In light of the questioning that framework was constructed object of study in this research cropped following question : To what extent and how the Tuning Latin America that requires convergence to general and specific skills in academic subject areas in Latin America , has been gaining space in Brazilian higher education in specific in Education ? Another ancillary question is " What demands have emerged to accession to Tuning Latin America in relation to the Brazilian reality? The objective is to investigate to what extent and in what ways the Tuning Latin America has been gaining ground in Brazilian higher education in the field of Education. Among the contradictions in relation to the European model in the Tuning Latin America highlights the lack of organization of a Hispanic area of higher education, not to structure a system of credits in the member countries and national specificities of Brazil, which will be treated as an object of recurrences in the unveiling of the object. Under the qualitative research approach discusses the "pitch" referrals data yet for Brazilian university in relation to higher education, recortadamente as the guidelines of the Tuning Latin America and its place in education IHE thematic area of the country.