Formación en responsabilidad social a través del currículo

Abstract

As a graduate of the Universidad Santo Tomás, a personal motivation drives the desire to uncover the strategies that the institution implements for the teaching of Social Responsibility. After gaining some work experience, the need for professionals entering the productive world to become accustomed to self-evaluating their work and the positive or negative impacts it may have on their community becomes increasingly evident. Although the term “University Social Responsibility” is relatively new in the educational field, it is the duty of universities to evolve alongside the academic community in order to keep their curricula updated and adapted to the social realities of their professionals and the contexts in which they project themselves (Macías & Bastidas, 2019). This perspective seeks to link university institutionalism, its networks of knowledge and actions, in favor of humanism, under the particular and updated conditions of the labor field. Thus, University Social Responsibility (USR) aims to generate strategic projects and curricula that result in implementation mechanisms applicable to the political, economic, and social realities of the globalized world, making its approach visible and subject to follow-up.