Platform for the Promotion of Postgraduate Programs

Child development constitutes a field of study and professional practice with its own distinct profile, defined by the convergence of two key elements: assessment and intervention. Given its conceptual, disciplinary, social, and cultural particularities, a fragmented approach to human development and its disorders is required. Interdisciplinarity is an undeniable reality that demands the critical analysis of complex phenomena influencing and affecting both individual development and its clinical, educational, and social needs. The convergence of these phenomena, along with their specificity and intensity in individual development, produces significant advancements in science. This involves integrating different approaches and fostering collaboration among various disciplines to broaden and deepen both our understanding and intervention, thereby yielding relevant conceptual, methodological, and practical solutions.

Currently, there is a growing demand for professionals who can establish and consolidate research groups in the field of human development in general, and specifically in the early stages of the life cycle. Academic work must respond to this demand with the purpose and commitment of training highly qualified human resources in an alternative approach to Child Development. This approach should deepen theoretical frameworks while simultaneously formulating key questions for practice, tailored to each type of experience and each particular case. Psychologists, physicians, speech therapists, educators, and other professionals involved in the processes of assessment and intervention in Child Development will find in the Master's program the main elements and criteria to achieve an understanding of traditional problems, as well as new contextualized research within a theoretical framework that is appropriate for a different reflection on this field of study.


General Purpose

• To train Master's degree researchers in an interdisciplinary approach to the theoretical, methodological and praxeological aspects of child development, through knowledge and critical analysis of the evaluation and intervention process, in favor of new and better life options for children.


Specific objectives

• To train professionals with the ability to critically transcend conceptions and methodologies of evaluation and intervention of child development, who in a contextualized and articulated manner influence public and social policies, in care for children in clinical, educational and community settings.

• To promote the formation and consolidation of research groups at the Regional, National and International levels, focused on the theoretical and methodological contribution to child development, which problematize and re-signify programs and projects of intervention in childhood.

The professional graduating from this program will be able to:

• Recognize a shared responsibility in child development processes, through the generation and implementation of programs and projects that promote the consolidation of public-private communities in accordance with national agendas (policies), generating interdisciplinary and inter-institutional support systems to improve the quality of life of our population, based on a clear understanding of the roles and tasks of the different participants and administrative sectors, capitalizing on the effects of mutual effort.

• To re-define the development contexts of children, their families, their schools and their communities, adapting innovative solutions to needs according to local social, economic and cultural resources, from a conceptual, praxeological and investigative approach to the process of evaluation and intervention of child development.