La investigación educativa interdisciplinaria integrada en el Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Educación (CIDE): un aporte de las Unidades Académicas y del INEINA

The project called Perfiles, Dinámicas y Desafíos de la Educación Costarricense (Profiles, Dynamics and Challenges of the Costa Rican Education) in its various working phases it conducts interdisciplinary educational research at an integrated level at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Educación (CIDE) (Research and Teaching Center) from Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. This article discusses the importance of taking into account outcomes and products of such research work within the various majors that CIDE offers.

La educación formal en cuestionamiento: voces y vivencias de las y los estudiantes de un liceo del cantón central de Heredia

This article presents the results of a participant action research applied in a High School in Heredia, in which the life experiences and voices of the involved students are taking into account. Moreover, their critics towards formal education and its curricular organization lead to a proposal on alternative school experiences that can be called a paralleled curriculum. This type of curriculum breaks up with the Costa Rican public high school official curriculum by inserting the students’ ways of being and doing.