Techno-Science in the Training of Technologists in SENA-Colombia

Abstract

This is a reflective article on the problem of integration in teaching-learning of scientific-technological knowledge within the training of apprentices at the Technologist level in Colombia, specifically in the National Learning Service (SENA). The text examines the link between contemporary applied research (techno-science that is developed internationally and nationally, within the concept of "industrial, academic and defense complex"), with economic and social development plans, at the levels: international, regional and local. Which derives for the case of Colombia in its National Development Plan in which it contemplates within the educational sector, the training of Technologists in the National System of Tertiary Education (SNET), in particular in the SENA (technical professional training), entity public that is primarily responsible for the design and implementation of technology training programs. Type of education that is alternate to that carried out by universities, but that also conforms, in this type of program, to the accreditation conditions required by the Ministry of National Education (MEN) for all tertiary education institutions. The above, to present the problem of the need for techno-scientific education in the training given at SENA and the use of the methodology of applied research projects, to complement the technical and technological training of the apprentices. Aspects that justify technological research projects from the perspective of Applied Research, Experimental Development, and Innovation, linked to academic training programs. In this context, the project-based learning methodology (training and applied research) is derived for the training of technologist apprentices. Projects in which the logical-epistemological and methodological structure of the basic scientific, technological and technical knowledge used, require an unobjectionable orientation and clarity, to favor their successful execution. For this, the theories and concepts of technoscience are necessary for useful reasons in the training of new workers.