In order to educate outstanding future educators for the country, we have incorporated innovations to our curricular plans stemming from the sciences of Andragology (educating adults) and Gerontology (educating mature adults). At present, Peruvian universities focus on preparing specialized teachers for elementary (children) and high school (adolescents) levels. However, there is a lack of preparing teachers to educate adults and mature adults.

Trata de los fundamentos epistemológicos, filosóficos, psicológicos y sociológicos del nuevo enfoque de la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la Geografía, que sustentan las habilidades esenciales del pensamiento crítico y las actitudes positivas en los estudiantes de esta especialidad, que garanticen el desempeño idóneo en su quehacer profesional.

We face a new world society :civilization of knowledge and technology, simbolic culture, free time increment, increase of scholarization, multiculturalization, and apparently, the absence of values that present a body blow to the human being in all his dimensions: afective, ethical social, esthetic and phisical. In the face of great challenges, we must improve our National Development Plan with the use of Educational Planification in order to enhance our Educational System. It engages the mother before giving birth, education of the baby, the child, the adolescent, the adult and the third age, having as the ultimate common denominator: Fundamental Values.

In the "knowledge age", the most important educational activity is the one of "learning". The student ability to "learn" goes along with her/him for life. Thanks to "learning" the human being can increase, develop and perfect knowledge, competencies, skills, and character in order to live a successful and worthy life. We, the Faculty, share the mission to educate and develop competent professionals who will contribute to the sustainable development of the country (Peru) and of the world. Facing this critical commitment, we have payed close attention through our research to the key quality factors in order to enhance the "learning process" of the college student. In our research we have proved that the key elements for enhancing the "System for orientation and learning" process are: a) The student, b) The professor/facilitator, c) The didactic strategies, d) The media tools (video, audio,...

We consider a priority, institutionally and personally, to recognize the outstanding contributions of Doctor Emilio Barrantes Revoredo as a posthumous homage. Such a remarkable intellectual, leader and master of masters was our professor and dean of the Education Faculty in San Marcos University (the Oldest University in America and one of the most prestigious) in two terms from 1956 to 1961 and then from 1964 to 1967. As an intellectual he was a true admirer of Peru and Education. He described our country, detailing and highlighting its geographic, historic, cultural and ethnical diversity. As an educator he was a Humanist in the philosophical and artistic ambits. His intellectual output was quite large. He kept writing and publishing books, articles and studies until he was 100 years old. One of his most remarkable books was “Introduction to Pedagogy”. In the seventies, he presided...

In the present era of Knowledge, the use of different Media in Didactics as part of the General Didactics acquires a superior importance. This is due to the high progress of science and technology. The traditional curriculum is extended beyond old edges using the “medial education” as a fundamental new component of general education. A new holistic curricular vision arises, open to the new world environment that includes the media as a leverage for the further development of society. The medial didactic creates a new environment for learning and new experiences and competencies, a new culture for teachinglearning with a vision of permanent formation. We embrace media as key curricular elements that work inside an educational context and work in relation to subjects, processes. It enhances the development of cognitive values in the students. They break traditional structures of calend...

Facing the fundamental changes of our society, our university system has to change as well fundamentally for the better pursuing the mission of putting itself at the service of the development of our country. This changes must aim at the integral development of the human being, in order to make it more productive, a teacher, a researcher and for the creating of spiritual and material wealth. We have identified the didactic strategies in order to improve and enhance the basic competencies of the peruvian university student and professional. Also identify the different “learnings” necessary for the development of competencies in order to optimize the formation of peruvian professionals for the betterment of peruvian society. We have applied different surveys to docents and students. Our research is exploratory, descriptive, aplicative and interpretative.Results: We have found and confi...

Dentro del clima de autoevaluación que vivimos actualmente en nuestra Facultad, nos ha interesado poner énfasis en el elemento más importante del Plan Curricular: el Perfil Profesional. Consideramos de singular trascendencia la necesidad de actualizarlo permanentemente, porque es la brújula que nos indica el “Norte” a seguir, por la necesidad de incorporar constantemente los avances científicos, tecnológicos y humanísticos del mundo actual, en permanente cambio. Requerimos profesionales competentes que impulsen su propio desarrollo y el de nuestra sociedad. Proponemos un Esquema Metodológico para la elaboración del Peril Profesional, así como los requerimientos personales y ocupacionales del docente, con la pertinencia necesaria en nuestra realidad de país pluricultural y multilingüe.