Estado del arte de la investigación del programa de maestría en pedagogía de la Universidad Santo Tomás, seccional Tunja (2013-2017)

Abstract

The "State of the art of the investigation of the master's program in pedagogy of the Santo Tomás University, Tunja section" is an investigation to characterize the state of the investigation of the master's degree in pedagogy from the degree works developed in the period 2013 -2017, from the lines of research of the program, in addition to determining the technical characteristics and methodological particularities from which the research proposals of the master's degree projects in pedagogy have been structured and relating these findings to the trends of education Currently formulating contributions that improve the training processes for research at a post-gradual level in the pedagogical field.

The descriptive - documentary methodological route includes the registration of the information in a categorical matrix, a table for each category and then a categorical reduction; the interpretation of data through descriptive hermeneutic exercises, which triangulated with current educational trends generate analysis reports, conclusions and recommendations with the intention that the Master has a judicious systematization that allows access to identify the potentialities and opportunities for improvement, namely the topics present in the foundations, both theoretical and methodological that support the work; likewise, the basis is given to account for the level of mastery of pedagogical knowledge, as a theoretical field that problematizes and tries to understand the school reality at all levels, the area of influence or development of research projects in the regions of the department and / or of the country and the inclusive level and the disciplines that are founding the research production from the educational, teaching practice, both formative and institutional evaluation are glimpsed.

For the analysis of the information, it is taken as a unit of work each year, developing five aspects related to delimitation by levels, areas, institutional location, Latin American pedagogues and objective analysis according to Bloom. Achieving finalization with the respective conclusions and pertinent recommendations for the completion of the research work.