Learning Environments: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Colombian Institutions

Abstract

This study presents a comparative analysis of the learning environments in two institutions in two different regions of Colombia, as well as the pedagogical and didactic aspects that are immersed therein and that promote meaningful learning. Some classes were observed, two teachers of bilingual areas were interviewed about their perspectives on learning environments and a detailed analysis was made of all the documents of each school, in order to identify similarities and differences in the construction and implementation of these learning environments and the third grade of each institution was taken into account as a sample. The project used different data collection instruments, including teacher interviews, observations focused on how the learning environments work, how they are constructed and implemented, the progress, the process, and documents that support the process of meaningful learning in students. The results of the analysis of these environments strongly indicate that bilingual learning environments represent a challenge for educational institutions committed to bilingualism processes, and constitute in turn the environment that seeks to favor the teaching-learning processes of a second language, making it meaningful.