Revista Scientific Volumen 5 / Nº 15 - Febrero-Abril 2020 | Page 170

Abstract Relevance and prospective studies are considered totally necessary in the design processes of university careers and postgraduate programs, which must take into account theoretical and contextual references on the area of knowledge for which the proposal is made. The objective of this work is to present the relevance assessment carried out for the Master's degree in Inclusive Education of the National University of Education of Ecuador, at first the analysis of the regulations that supported the proposal and in a second moment a contextual analysis, to the one that selected a sample that responded to the criterion of identifying the knowledge that professionals had about inclusive education, information about the need for professional improvement in this field of knowledge, the expectations of greater employment opportunities and professional development from the master's degree, this information was collected through surveys and discussion groups, which allowed to identify the demands of the teaching staff, the desired curricular design, the competences that should be formed with the instrumentation of the master's program and the profile of the graduates of said program. Keywords: teacher education; special education teachers; educational relevance. How to cite this article: Herrera, J., Guevara, G., & Urías, G. (2020). Relevance studies from contextual references: Experience from a master’s degree in Inclusive Education. Revista Scientific, 5(15), 168-190, e- ISSN: 2542-2987. Recovered from: https://doi.org/10.29394/Scientific.issn.2542-2987.2020.5.15.8.168- 190 Date Received: 08-10-2019 Date Acceptance: 12-12-2019 169 Date Publication: 05-02-2020 Arbitrado Relevance studies from contextual references: Experience from a master's degree in Inclusive Education