Prácticas docentes en la Escuela de Comunicaciones del Ejército Nacional

Abstract

The research is framed in the foundations of the research, pedagogical and humanistic lines of the Master's Degree in Education of the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, it is carried out in the Escuela de Comunicaciones Militares (ESCOM) which is a public and military university, that offers its undergraduate and graduate programs to civilian and military personnel; the study highlights the understanding of the teaching practices in a defined university context characterized by the sharing of military and civilian education. This research on the teaching practices of ESCOM professors provides an answer to the question: What are the teaching practices of the professors of the School of Communications like? The hermeneutic orientation used to understand the teaching practices of teachers in qualitative research begins with the structuring of a theoretical framework under the categories of: teaching practices, heteronomous teaching practices, autonomous teaching practices, didactics and evaluation. The method that guided the research is that of critical reflective action, which is based on the critical-reflective paradigm, in such a way that the subjects are conceived as active, understanding the study of the object of research and its socio-cultural context. Therefore, the research will allow identifying how teaching practices are being generated in the classroom; according to the information generated by the teachers, it will allow making visible criteria such as The planning, organization, selection of knowledge, elaboration of strategies, activities, resources, times, the criteria to evaluate and the deep reflections about their impacts and consequences in the participant subjectivities. In order to understand the teaching practices of the teachers, a direct investigation of the teachers' praxis is carried out.