Relación entre el enfoque curricular y las competencias laborales de los egresados del programa de Cultura Física Deporte y Recreación de la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

This research work presents an analysis of the relationship between the curricular approach and the labor competencies of the graduates of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Recreation of the Universidad Santo Tomás who graduated between 2006 and 2009, bearing in mind that for this first university faculty, the academic quality imparted during and after the transfer of their graduates is of vital importance. A journey is made through the historical evolution of physical activity in Colombia up to the creation of the faculties related to this area of knowledge and the daily work of these professionals; and without leaving aside the importance of training by competencies in higher education, since these must establish the development and application of their academic processes in order to help in the integral formation of their actors. In this sense, the Universidad Santo Tomás proposes a curriculum that has the academic components around the body, culture and movement, a research component, a humanist component, and the elective academic spaces for in-depth study. Therefore, the professional graduated from the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sport and Recreation of the University of Santo Tomás can work in different fields of knowledge of the career and project in their working life with all the tools given in the curriculum. For the elaboration of this project, an instrument was applied to know the opinion and feelings of the graduates, in which several questions were asked that allowed to analyze the curricular approach of the faculty and how the graduates apply it in their current world of work, finding that the professional profile is very complete and offers great advantages with respect to the labor market, due to the wide range of areas in which it was formed. Therefore, in the labor actuality they open a wide spectrum to him of easy labor entailment.