PERSPECTIVAS DE LA MAESTRÍA EN CIENCIAS EN METODOLOGÍA DE LA CIENCIA, EN EL MARCO DE LOS CRITERIOS INSTITUCIONALES Y NACIONALES DEL POSGRADO

Abstract

The postgraduate course in Methodology of Science with a history of more than 25 years within the IPN, is now in a new stage. The redesign of the program objectives and the curriculum has always been permeated by academic debates academic-ideological, political-institutional, political-academic and only in its final stage: theoretical and academic. The Master‟s is to focus discussion on the last, toward the formation of identity as a postgraduate scientific guidance in order to make the methodology of science becomes science methodology. Political and institutional issues will frame this new development as part of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional shall be suitable Modelo Educativo Institucional. In this Model, the postgraduate and research are central to the education of students and to update the practice of teaching (re-link teaching and research). This is where the MCMC program aimed at training researchers on methodological aspects of their discipline, is presented as an option to support the Programa Estratégico de Investigación y Posgrado (Strategic Program for Research and Postgraduate) stages of reorganization, support and consolidation. Also in the political-institutional framework, the MCMC should be ascribed to national criteria set by the CONACyT and SES in the Padrón Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad (Census of Quality National Postgraduate Programs). However, because the distinction in postgraduate guidance is not yet fully established, it has gaps and inconsistencies that even the Council itself has acknowledged, in this paper is an analysis of various authors, the Foro Consultivo de Ciencia y Tecnología (Advisory Forum of Science and Technology) and CONACyT, to assist in the definition of applicable institutional policies, particularly the MCMC but also to any degree.