Beliefs, Teaching Practice and Proposals for the Attention of Cultural Diversity: the Case of a Costa Rican Teaching and Three Nicaraguans Infants

This article presents data from a research that studied a teacher belief regarding three Nicaraguan students. Specifically, presents findings related to teaching practice and its relation to diverse education proposals. It includes an analysis of four subcategories: daily dynamic of a teacher who works with infants of another culture, students’ assessment in the classroom, discipline strategies to children, and diverse beliefs and proposals. The data shows that, in the classroom, the teacher does not demonstrate different treatment to Nicaraguan and Costa Rican children, suggesting that equal treatment is the strategy per se used by the teacher to solve the issue of cultural diversity in the classroom. On the other hand, discipline is assumed by the teacher with scolding criteria, using a loud tone of voice and aggressive vocabulary.

Repensar la educación y la pedagogía: algunas reflexiones críticas

Certainly it becomes necessary to reflect on the school not only as a place of permanent cultural construction, influenced by multiple relationships, but also on how it becomes the place where these connections band together and set up new ones. In every analysis on education and pedagogies, it must not be left behind the fact that curricular designs explicit and condition the school practices. Likewise, these outlines also determine the intentionality of the teaching practices. These ideas constitute the basis guiding the reflections of this investigation, which more than appearing as theoretical issues, are actually visualized like practical possibilities. The arguments that are expressed here gather the most significant concerns conveyed by the authors. They account for the approximate outcome of the reading and the reflection on the personal teaching practice gained within the university classrooms and the experience of working with high school students.

La concepción de “ser humano” en Pablo Freire

This article analizes how Pablo Freire, one of the main education theoreticians with broad trajectory and world influence and with a big contibution to what it is known as alternative pedagogy, conceives the human been and his participation in and with the world. He has built his conception on this matter through several publications, merged from his teaching practice.

Desarrollo social y educación superior

Recibido 12 de abril de 2011 • Aceptado 26 de agosto de 2011 • Corregido 21 de octubre de 2011      El presente ensayo tiene por objetivo reflexionar sobre el quehacer de la universidad pública costarricense y su responsabilidad en la formación para el desarrollo social. Lo anterior, entendido como uno de los múltiples retos que enfrenta la educación superior, de cara a las demandas que la función del conocimiento posee en el presente, y a la relación de estas con el desarrollo autónomo del conocimiento. Su planteamiento, defiende algunos asuntos débilmente abordados en estudios previos, y que se constituyen en elementos esenciales para una formación significativa, funcional y de impacto social, como son: a) La ética en la organización, b) La autoeducación de la universidad, c) La incidencia de las políticas curriculares en las prácticas promovidas, d) La transformación de la cultura docente para contribuir a mejorar la práctica, y e) La construcción del conocimiento para fundamentar criterios, tomar decisiones, solucionar problemas y construir proyectos de vida.