The integrating activity in the training of the graduate in Education Sciences: an evaluation of its management

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the results of the assessment of the management of the Integrating Activity implemented as a curricular innovation in the training of the graduate in Education in a Mexican public university, within the context of the new Humanistic Competency-based Model (Modelo Humanístico Basado en Competencias, MHIC), founded on the pedagogy of integration. Based on a mixed methodology and from the students' perception, seven years after its implementation it is possible to determine that the management of the Integrating Activity, as a curricular innovation of the MHIC, has about 50% of effectiveness; it shows the achieved goals, the contradictions and the obstacles that need to be overcome.