La geohistoria como un enfoque metodológico para una educación universitaria transformadora

Abstract

The Venezuelan university is currently facing a great challenge, this due to the economic crisis in which the nation finds itself. Situation that requires our universities to turn their operations around so that they can respond appropriately and effectively to the real needs that afflict us as a society. Activating a methodology that makes it an integrating axis in the various productive, social and cultural areas of the state to which it belongs. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to analyze from Geohistory what should be the role that the "Francisco de Miranda" National Experimental University must assume in this difficult historical context. To respond to this situation, the works Tovar, R. (1986) "The geohistorical approach" were taken as a theoretical 325 reference, in which it presents an interdisciplinary perspective understanding the territorial space as a social product. In relation to the paradigm used as methodological support for this research is the positivist, it allowed to obtain as results that the university must adapt to the needs and nature of its community, activating production mechanisms from the various areas of knowledge, so it is It is necessary to adapt the curricula and create new academic offers that allow the new professional to be integrated into the labor field in the short term.