BOLOGNA PROCESS AND DISCOURSE SKILLS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION: THE TUNING LATIN AMERICA PROJECT

Abstract

This study discusses influences of the Bologna Process in higher education policies within the Latin America, starting to the approach of the Tuning Latin America Project and demonstrating how this reflects the logic of pedagogy skills. The method adopted is the bibliographical and documentary research of the qualitative approach. Broadly, the study considers the current phase of capitalism, named flexible accumulation, and the relationship of higher education with the notion of knowledge society. The Bologna Process, in this context, emerged as a public policy inserted in the European Union, aiming to end the expansion of competitive advantage of the block in terms of higher education and internationalization of their modus operandi. As an example, there is the Tuning Project applied to Latin America, it was seeking alignment with the guidelines of Bologna,it acted as a methodology to match and compare the university education, with a view to a possible globalization of curricula and the world-standardized training, it was using to the pedagogy skills.