The Pedagogical Experience of the Juan De Castellanos University in the Training of Teachers
Martha Luz Arias, Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos (Colombia)
Edgar G. Rodríguez, Fundación Universitaria Juan de Castellanos (Colombia)
Abstract
The Juan de Castellanos University Foundation has a history of more than 40 years in the training of teachers at different educational levels through different undergraduate, postgraduate and extension programs. From an institutional research perspective, this paper identifies, on the one hand, the milestones in the history of the university in a timeline using a documentary review. On the other hand, it characterizes the main stakes of its pedagogical vision and the way in which the institutional educational project defines an imprint of transversal training in the planning of each training space. To do this, it has been used the analysis of interviews to principal actors suggesting elements of contrast to account for the institutional pedagogical experience. This proposal highlights the innovative bets that have been launched in the institution in a recent training experience to design training courses that emphasize the systematization of practices and prior knowledge of teachers, allowing the participation of their students and generating disruptive and located mechanism to enhance their pedagogical practices. It is hoped that this research exercise will strengthen institutional learning, make the institution's experience visible and generate a framework of meaning that further strengthens its humanistic character and its leading role in the field. In this same sense, with this work is expected to promote the generation of new links with researchers from all over the world who want to create networks of work in the field of teacher training and new pedagogical trends.
Keywords: Teachers’ Professional Development, Institutional research, smart universities;