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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Teaching of electoral law in Venezuela: Proposal for an Instructional Program for the Law School of the Fermín Toro University

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Abstract

The article reports the results of the work «Instructional Program on Electoral Legislation for the Promotion and Defense of the Right to Suffrage aimed at Students of the Law School of the Fermín Toro University. Barquisimeto, Lara State». The purpose of the research was to formulate a proposal for an instructional program to teach, in the face-to-face and blended modality, the Electoral Legislation subject at the Law School of the Fermín Toro University (Barquisimeto, Venezuela). The work was developed under a non-experimental design, supported by field research. It was descriptive in nature and was framed in the feasible project modality. The population is carried out by teachers from the Department of Public Law and Specific Professional Training of the Law School of the Fermín Toro University (20). The sample grouped 10 teachers from the subjects of Constitutional and Administrative. For data collection, a questionnaire was carried out. The study to diagnose the training need of the career in the disciplinary area and justify the proposal of the instructional program as a relevant training input for the profile of graduation from the career and additionally as an ideal space for teaching with a perspective of fundamental rights of suffrage.

Keywords:

Electoral law, teaching, instructional program, suffrage, participation.

Author Biography

Luis Palacios Sanabria, Universidad San Sebastián de Chile

Luis Guillermo Palacios Sanabria is a full-time academic at the Faculty of Law and Government Social Sciences of the Universidad San Sebastián de Chile. In addition, he is a candidate for a doctorate in law and a master's degree in law with a mention in Constitutionalism and Law from the Austral University of Chile. He is also a lawyer from the Fermín Toro University of Venezuela. Email  luis.palacios@uss.cl