THE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION: ITS CONFLUENCE IN THE UCM POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS RESEARCH

Abstract

Objective: to understand the pedagogical practices that typify the teacher’s performance and discourses, within the frame of The Master Program in Pedagogy at Catholic University of Manizales research thesis. Methodology: qualitative hermeneutic approach drew from content analysis. Findings: in the research approached, the following features are predominant. Regarding authors the most cited being Freire, followed by Florez, Giroux and Bernstein. The principal categories are: pedagogy, education, teaching, evaluation, inclusion, social context, learning and teachers role. The approaches are done from the perspectives of critical pedagogy and inclusive pedagogy. Qualitative methodology is the most used in this study, along with ethnographic methodological design, socio-critical research paradigm and a type of a biographical narrative study. Conclusions: the qualitative methodology is predominant in social sciences since it allows a deep, wide, clear and loyal analysis, within the understanding of the phenomena approached and the experiences of those who are involved in research. Freire’s pedagogy allows the incorporation of analysis and meaningful practices regarding social and political situations of oppression. The educational processes require interdisciplinary approaches to be able to give account of an integral, inclusive, and complex formation.