La carrera de Derecho en Ecuador: Análisis de los planes de estudio en el 2018

Rina Pazos Padilla; Jorge Fabara Espín

doi:10.5354/0719-5885.2018.51970

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University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

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The Law Study in Ecuador

Authors

Rina Pazos Padilla Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial
Jorge Fabara Espín Universidad de Minho

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2018.51970

Abstract

It has been said for long time, that in Ecuador as in many other countries in Latin America, the law study programs at universities are positivists, lacking practical learning as well as critical, analytical and interpretative skills or further connection with social sciences and other fields of knowledge. Nevertheless, In Ecuador considering the legal changes enacted in 2010 that allowed for the first time to have a national examination for the law study programs, and also because of the constitutional changes of 2008 regarding the direct application of human rights at all the levels, it should have led to a new direction that might help to overcome positivism. This article makes an analysis of the law curricula from the universities in Ecuador, according to the designations of the subjects, in order to identify to which educational paradigm they belong, as also the program's core. To do so, this approach will apply the model given by the law historian Robert W. Gordon as a reference framework to sort the results and to draw some conclusions and reflections.

Keywords:

Law, higher education, law study, positivism, curricula, Ecuador, Latin America

Author Biographies

Rina Pazos Padilla, Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial

Rina Pazos Padilla es abogada y magíster en Derecho Administrativo, candidata a PhD en Ciencias Jurídicas Generales por la Universidade do Minho de Portugal. Actualmente está afiliada a la Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial del Ecuador. Su correo electrónico es rina.pazos@ute.edu.ec.

Jorge Fabara Espín, Universidad de Minho

Jorge Fabara Espín es abogado y candidato a PhD en Modernidades Comparadas por la Universidade do Minho de Portugal. Su correo electrónico es id7168@ alunos.uminho.pt

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Pazos Padilla, R., & Fabara Espín, J. (2018). The Law Study in Ecuador: Analyzing the universities’ curricula in 2018. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 5(2), 9–30. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2018.51970