Educational quality: “a vision and an innovation and curriculum development practice in higher education for Central America”

Abstract

This article is a chronological review of the state of different theories of education and how these have been developing throughout the teaching and pedagogical practice, and the prevalence of some educational approaches. Education and its relationship with educational management in higher education, their impact for the development of Higher Education in Central America, innovation and curriculum development as a practice of educational technology, are addressed. Educational quality must be centered in a vision and an innovation and curriculum development practice, looking for a more inclusive higher education, which derives from a management model and an institutional development for teaching the different programs and degrees in the higher education level. This will promote the creation of educational quality rankings as development indicators for each and every of the programs offered, pretending to be implemented in the internationalization programs of education as well.