Resumen de Higher education in Latin America: reflections and perspectives on Physics
Armando Fernández Guillermet (coord.)
The working group in the area of Physics was formed at the First General Meeting of the Tuning Latin America Project held in San José de Costa Rica between 22nd and 24th February 2006. The Group is made up of representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
The group began its activity with an analysis of the professional profiles and programmes for qualifications in Physics in the participant countries. The analysis showed considerable diversity in the names of programmes and qualifications. The key results of this analysis are summarised in Section 1.2.
The group went on to establish specific competences of the discipline (Section 1.3). The specific competences were finally systemised using a model that distinguishes three main categories and two subcategories (Section 1.4).
