Formative Research: A Pedagogical Model in Higher Education

Abstract

Research is a fundamental function of College, therefore it is called to be, in a constant, constructive and creative way, an efficient and true motor of development as well as innovation of each country, particularly, and of the international community in general. Therefore, it is an inherent challenge for the Peruvian College to promote research in all areas of its academic work, placing a strong emphasis on Formative Research, which is to some extent, for the research itself, a natural condition of possibility. Hence, it (the formative research) emerges as a requirement of being and college work and is constituted as a necessary transversal axis in the curricular construction of the curricula of the different areas of professional training. Being essential to articulate teaching, curriculum and research in strict, as an alternative to train and motivate professional researchers. In such sense, the systemic, integrative and constructivist pedagogical model is presented as a strategy for learning to investigate.