Abstract

NAVARRETE HERNANDEZ, Alicia. Conceptual model to design a sustainable auxiliary curriculum plan in contingency periods for public institutions of higher education. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.21, e050.  Epub Apr 23, 2021. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v11i21.785.

An innovative curriculum design tool for sustainable development education was obtained as a result of the study. The main objective was to create a strategic management instrument for critical situations during the teaching-learning process.

The curricular design method of three public institutions of higher education, three international postulates for the education of sustainable development, two theories of constructivist learning based on scaffolding, a theory for the design of learning strategies, as well as references about learning styles and models.

The study was based on analytical, systemic and inductive methods, through which data were obtained about the context of the main constructivist learning theories, methods of curriculum design, postulates about education for sustainable development, technological trends in education, the types and models of learning and the forms of teaching.

It was observed that none of the methods used by the three public higher education institutions has a contingency plan for critical situations within the structure of the curriculum design method, however, in the three institutions, actions have been implemented to provide solutions to the critical situations that arise. Regarding its structure, it was identified that the method is diverse with the exception of the curricular model since in two institutions it is systemic and in one it is modular.

The topics related to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, in the curricular content of study programs, favor the quality of education. It is suggested to integrate into the curriculum design method a sustainable auxiliary plan for the prevention of critical situations and also to incorporate topics related to sustainable development that serve as a complement to the current program content and that promote sustainable meaningful learning to respond to derived critical situations of natural phenomena caused by climate change.

Keywords : education for sustainable development; higher education; educational trend; curriculum; educational innovation.