Higher education in Ecuador: analysis of labor competencies in the activity of the research teacher

Abstract

This article deals with the analysis of labor competencies within the framework of the teaching and research activity, reflecting the strategic importance that determines the effectiveness of the university teacher responding in a particular way to the effective performance required by higher education in Ecuador. The role of higher education institutions and their actors (teachers and students) is highlighted in the analysis. In order to achieve the purpose of this article, it was developed as a level of research and in depth, addressing the object of study through of exploratory and descriptive research. The scientific method was articulated with the analytical method, generating the results that determined the implementation of the demonstration of basic, applied and transversal competences in the teaching and research activity.