Pedagogical Trends in Teaching Humanities in the Formation of Future Elementary School Teachers

• Main Authors: José Cifuentes-Medina, Jaime Torres-Ortiz, Ruby Espejo-Lozado
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Simón Bolívar 2019-11-01
• Series: Educación y Humanismo
• Subjects: teacher training, pedagogical trends, humanities.
• Online Access: http://revistas.unisimon.edu.co/index.php/educacion/article/view/3628

Introduction: This study presents the results of an investigation, which addressed trends in teaching humanities and ethics when training future elementary school teachers participating in a distance and virtual education program. Humanistic education is understood to be a way to develop human sensitivity towards cultural and social diversity in order to understand the world. Objective: Its purpose, among others, is to foster the development of humanism among students.  Current problems focus on the most basic and primitive behaviors of the human being, such as their ability to annihilate, reject, exclude, isolate, dominate and control others. Universities have interpreted these ideological conditions as the educational processes that fall within commercial and industrialized educational frameworks. Method: This study was then conducted as an ethnography, which utilized videos as a non-participant technique for observation and record of virtual activity, collected and analyzed through ATLAS-Ti. Results: The results show that the most common pedagogical trends emerge from teacher-student interactions, which are integrated through socio-constructive, cognitive and behavioral processes. Discussion y Conclusion: In particular, such experiences as the need to persist teaching values, ethical principles, and the teacher’s role in training and transmitting humanistic and ethical knowledge can be shared with the community.