This article belongs to an interdisciplinary process developed at the National University of Abstract. This article arises from the research process of the Healthy Pedagogy project at the Center for Research and Teaching in Education (CIDE, by its acronym in Spanish) of the National University of Costa Rica (UNA, by its acronym in Spanish). The Center is well known as the country’s teacher training school. CIDE is structured in 5 academic units or departments, that attend the undergraduate and postgraduate education at different levels of the education system. The research recovers the issue of health, as a crucial element of social and educational praxis. The Center relies on pedagogy as a science that supports the welfare of life in an holistic dimension. This is an interdisciplinary study that emerges from one of the objectives of the research project: identify healthy educational experiences in CIDE by applying a semi-structured questionnaire to 19 teachers from the 5 academic units. An integrated multimodal approach is used, quantitative and qualitative aspects are combined, because they offer an opportunity to explore, describe and contribute to the interpretation of what healthy means in light of the participants perceptions. The results suggest that there is a diversity of criteria regarding the meaning of healthy and how to generate appropiate personal and professional environments. This allows to identify the challenge, both for CIDE and the University, of approaching the health issue by articulating policies that promote healthy lifestyles inside and outside the classrooms in order to treat the educational community with social responsibility.
Recibido 16 de mayo de 2014 • Corregido 12 de enero de 2015 • Aceptado 27 de abril de 2015Este artículo aborda el tema de la formación y el desarrollo profesional de docentes en servicio en el campo de la lectoescritura, con el propósito de analizar las implicaciones de la puesta en marcha del nuevo programa de español para I Ciclo de la Educación General Básica en Costa Rica. Para ello se comparte la información obtenida mediante cuestionarios respondidos por docentes en servicio en el nivel de la educación básica, para conocer, desde sus propias voces, la formación y experiencia profesional, las prácticas pedagógicas y necesidades de formación en el campo de la lectoescritura. Entre los principales hallazgos encontrados en la investigación, se determina como indispensable que la formación y el desarrollo profesional docente en el tema de los procesos iniciales de lectura y escritura permitan a las educadoras y los educadores comprender a profundidad de los planteamientos teóricos que fundamentan el programa de español para el I Ciclo; de lo contrario, se corre el riesgo de interpretaciones y prácticas equivocadas que pueden dar al traste con su enfoque.
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