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Redalyc.Educación Superior En Paraguaná. Una Visión De Conjunto Multiciencias ISSN: 1317-2255 [email protected] Universidad del Zulia Venezuela Pinto Iglesias, Teodoro; Concepción García, Blanquita Educación Superior en Paraguaná. Una visión de conjunto Multiciencias, vol. 9, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2009, pp. 267-280 Universidad del Zulia Punto Fijo, Venezuela Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=90412325006 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Ciencias de la Educación MULTICIENCIAS, Vol. 9, Nº 3, 2009 (267 - 280) ISSN 1317-2255 / Dep. legal pp. 200002FA828 Educación Superior en Paraguaná*. Una visión de conjunto Teodoro Pinto Iglesias y Blanquita Concepción García 1Docente Investigador adscrito al Programa de Investigación CONDES “Educación y Calidad de Vida en Paraguaná del Núcleo LUZ Punto Fijo. 2 Docente Investigadora adscrita al Programa de Investigación CONDES “Educación y Calidad de Vida en Paraguaná del Núcleo LUZ Punto Fijo. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Resumen Producto de una investigación descriptiva explicativa bajo el enfoque cualitativo inter- pretativo, se deriva el presente artículo en el cual se elabora una especie de fotografía de con- traste del ayer y hoy de la Educación Superior en Paraguaná, estado Falcón, Venezuela. La in- formación concerniente a los años en los cuales se inicia la educación superior en Paraguaná se obtuvo principalmente del trabajo de Pinto (1996), los datos de los años subsiguientes y 2008, consolidados mediante la revisión de documentos oficiales, fuentes bibliográficas, diseño y aplicación de instrumentos (cuestionarios) dirigidos a las autoridades de Educación Superior, además de la obtenida a través de la historia oral. En la actualidad, la región objeto de estudio cuenta con siete núcleos de universidades nacionales, una universidad privada, un instituto universitario de tecnología y dos núcleos de institutos universitarios. Entre todos totalizan para el año 2008, veinte mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro (20.984) estudiantes de pregrado, el 70% de los cuales cursa en los núcleos de las respectivas universidades nacionales; el otro 30% se distribuye en las instituciones del sector privado. En cuanto a la educación de cuarto y quinto nivel, Paraguaná cuenta con quinientos cuarenta y cuatro (544) participantes de postgrado dis- tribuidos en los niveles de doctorado, maestría y especialización. En pregrado se dicta ochenta y un menciones de carreras distintas, dieciséis de postgrado y cinco de cursos de diplomado. Este contingente de estudiantes está atendido en promedio por un mil ciento treinta y seis (1136) docentes que en conjunto integran el subsistema de educación superior de Paraguaná. Palabras clave: Universidad, educación superior, carreras, Paraguaná. * Educación Superior – LOE (1980) actualmente Educación Universitaria – LOE (2009). Recibido: 29-01-2009 / Aceptado: 08-12-2009 268 PINTOIGLESIASetal./EDUCACIÓNSUPERIORENPARAGUANÁ.UNAVISIÓNDECONJUNTO Higher Education in Paraguana. An Overview Abstract Proceeds from a descriptive explanatory under the interpretive qualitative approach, is derived in this article which produces a snapshot of past and present contrast of Higher Educa- tion in Paraguana, Falcon State, Venezuela. Information concerning the years in which higher education begins at Paraguana was largely the work of Pinto (1996), data from subsequent years to 2008, consolidated through review of official documents, literature sources, design and implementation instruments (questionnaires) directed the authorities of Higher Education, in addition to that obtained through oral history. Currently, the region under study kernels has se- ven national universities, a private university, a college of technology and two colleges cores. Among total for the year 2008, twenty thousand nine hundred eighty-four (20,984) undergra- duates, 70% of these courses in the nuclei of the respective national universities, the other 30% is distributed in private sector institutions. As for the education of fourth and fifth level, with five hundred Paraguana has forty-four (544) distributed participants graduate doctoral levels, expertise and specialization. In undergraduate eighty-one gives indications of different races, sixteen and five postgraduate diploma courses. This contingent of students being served on average per one thousand one hundred thirty-six (1136) teachers who together make up the higher education subsystem Paraguana. Key words: University, higher education, careers, Paraguana. Introducción Paraguaná, empezó también a ser otra Paraguaná, la de la refinación del oro negro que mueve la economía mundial. La institución educacional denominada “Universidad” A finales de la década de los 80 y los primeros años de recibe su nombre, en primer lugar, por agrupar, en defen- los 90 se fue generando un movimiento entre las fuerzas vi- sa de sus intereses a la totalidad de profesores y estudian- vas de la península de Paraguaná, en el sentido de diversi- tes que convivían en la ciudad de París, allá por el siglo ficar la economía local, pues no se podía estar a expensas XIII. Ellos eran la “universitas magistrorum et scholarium de los “cambios del patrón de refinación” y las “paradas de Parisius commorantium” . Después afianzaron ese nom- planta” de las refinerías. De todos aquellos proyectos bre de universidad porque no se cerraban, estaban abier- “post-modificación del patrón de refinación”, el que hasta tos a todo tipo de conocimiento. “Scientia omnium re- la fecha se ha concretado es el de la Ley de Zona Libre de rum” . La totalidad de profesores y estudiantes universita- Inversión Turística, publicada en Gaceta Oficial de la Re- rios que hacen vida en esta Península sería la “Educación pública de Venezuela (1998) que hasta la fecha ha sido Superior en Paraguaná”, tanto más universidad cuanto ma- más zona comercial que turística, pero de todas formas se yor sea la diversidad de carreras que se ofrecen y, sobre aprecia el crecimiento de Punto Fijo el cual se extiende al todo, cuanto más grande sea la apertura de las mentes de este de la autopistayalolargo de la Coro Punto Fijo. estudiantes y profesores. Desde la instalación de las refi- A la par de esta explosión comercial y urbanística de nerías, a mediados del siglo pasado, además de ser aquella Punto Fijo, también ha sucedido en los últimos años una 1 Totalidad de maestros y alumnos de París. 2 Ciencia que estudia todas las cosas, conocimiento de todo. MULTICIENCIAS VOL. 9, Nº3,2009(267-280) / NÚCLEOPUNTOFIJO-UNIVERSIDADDELZULIA 269 explosión educacional a nivel superior. Así como la ciudad nientos cuarenta y tres (350.543) habitantes, y según las se ha expandido sin verdadera planificación urbanística, proyecciones del censo 2001 su población actual asciende tampoco ha habido una planificación que integre las insti- a unos cuatrocientos cincuenta mil (450.000) habitantes tuciones de educación universitaria de la zona. de los cuales unos trescientos mil (300.000) viven en la cos- ta occidental, en una especie de metrópolis que ocupa un Pinceladas de Paraguaná área de quince (15) kilómetros de largo por unos tres (3) kilómetros de ancho. Paraguaná, tal como se observa en los mapas 1 y 2, ubi- Paraguaná destaca, según Gaceta Oficial N° 36.517 de cada en el estado Falcón, Venezuela,es una península uni- fecha, 06 de agosto de 1998, como Zona Libre de Inversión da al Continente por el istmo de los Médanos de 28 kiló- Turística. Su núcleo urbano principal es Punto Fijo. Este metros de longitud, con una extensión de unos dos mil espacio Peninsular está divido en tres Municipios: Cariru- trescientos noventa y seis (2.396) kilómetros cuadrados, bana, Los Taques y Falcón. información registrada en Brett (1971), De Armas (1978), El Municipio Carirubana, con quinientos setenta y Esteves (1988); aunque nuevas estimaciones según ima- cuatro (574) Km2, equivalente al 21% de la extensión de gen satelital observada en la fotografía 1, indican una ex- Paraguaná, cuenta con unos doscientos sesenta mil tensión de tres mil cuatrocientos cinco (3405) kilómetros (260.000) habitantes aproximadamente, concentrados cuadrados. Su población según el censo de población y vi- fundamentalmente en Punto Fijo, capital del Municipio, y vienda (1990) era de unos trescientos cincuenta mil qui- el resto en los poblados rurales de Santa Ana de Paragua- Mapa 1 República Bolivariana de Venezuela Fuente:http://ccveqa.org/imagenes/mapavlz.gif Mapa 2 Fotografía 1 Península de Paraguaná Satelital Paraguaná.Vista Fuente: Corpotulipa (2008). 270 PINTOIGLESIASetal./EDUCACIÓNSUPERIORENPARAGUANÁ.UNAVISIÓNDECONJUNTO ná, unos tres mil (3.000) habitantes y Tacuato,unos dos mil midad a Punto Fijo y por contar con una infraestructura de (2.000) habitantes. Cuenta con un puerto mercante por servicios generales algo más eficientes que las de las playas donde entra gran cantidad de mercancía para los comer- del municipio Falcón. En el casco urbano de Los Taques cios y establecimientos adscritos al Régimen de Zona Li- tiene su sede el Núcleo de la Universidad Pedagógica Ex- bre para el fomento de Inversión Turística, un puerto pes- perimental Libertador (UPEL). quero donde atrancan barcos de pesca artesanal y de El Municipio Falcón, con un mil ochocientos veintidós arrastre (esta última, suprimida por la promulgación del (1.822)
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