La universidad del Tolima: los años de su institucionalización (1945-1962). Hacia una discusión sobre la universidad y el currículo.

Abstract

Under the discussions about the higher education, this research document seeks to understand the contemporary curricular changes that led to the institutionalization of the Universidad of Tolima. Its main goal is to characterize the higher education and how it adapted the curriculum based on the issuance of the Organic Acts of the University in 1962, issued by the Higher Council of the University. By making use of documentary analysis, and two levels of discussion: the internal and external. The administrative act issued by the Higher and administrative Council in the period mentioned above are analyzed. Part of the analysis of the 1962 Organic Act allows to show the curricular structure and its administrative, financial and academic network, all these lead to make learning and access to knowledge possible to learners. The latter analysis was made under the government policies of the Ministry of Education between 1903 and 1958.