University formation and education: the Spanish University System in the European Frame of Higher Education

Abstract

The reform of Spanish University System occurs for allow that the universities to board the needs derived from the new kinds of knowledge generation and transmission. The university’s objective is the formation of professionals capable of taking, analysing and elaborating the big quantity of information that exists in our society, and capable of transforming this information in knowledge. The changes that involve this reform, affects the methodology of the University Formation too. To do this, it is necessary to the curricula and to include in it new methodologies. New curricula must include new pedagogical and didactic approaches that provide the acquisition of practice knowledge, competences and skills for communicating, critical analysis, independent reflection and cooperative work. Based on that, we present the work that we are developing in the University of Alicante through Networks of Research in the European Frame of Higher Education Program. This Network Program tries to encourage the work of professors networks on implementing both teaching-learning strategies and evaluation models according to European Frame of Higher Education. In addition to this general frame of work, we present the research that we are carrying out in the Faculty of Education on Curricula Design and Teaching Methods, according to the European Frame of Higher Education.