Modelo pedagógico de las experiencias de educación popular de la Universidad Surcolombiana, Colombia

Abstract

The study took care to include/understand the meaning of the experiences of popular education developed in the Department of the Huila through the Projects of Alphabetization of Adults and Pedagogical Formation for the Resolution of Conflicts and the Citizen Participation of the Surcolombiana University, Colombia. The investigation contributes to the understanding of the sense of the experiences of popular education for its own actors inasmuch as it needs the relevance the projects from the point of view of his intentionality, social relevancy of the contents, pedagogical relations and impact of the generated programs. In addition, it constructs to pedagogical and methodologic foundations from the systematization of the experiences and the conceptual developments of the Popular Education for the involution of the pedagogical practices, at the same time that opens new exploratory possibilities from the learnings for the action which the social organizations demand to advance in their processes of empowerment. It contains 3 chapters, the conclusions and recommendations. First one takes care of the theoretical and methodologic foundations of the investigation. One talks about, in the first place, to the conceptual approach of the popular education, its basic foundations, the search of historical sources, the redefinitions, referring perspective and the construction of the pedagogical thing like conceptual from where the reconstruction and interpretation of the pedagogical model are assumed. Secondly, reference to the qualitative approach becomes of the investigation, with emphasis in the hermeneutics and participative and to the process of investigation that assumes like analysis unit each one of texts or stories of the actors from which the experience based on thematic nucleus is reconstructed, to re-elaborate the qualification process and is constructed the pedagogical model of the experiences of Popular Education. The second chapter presents/displays the reconstruction of the experiences of popular education of the Surcolombiana University from the meaning that the actors give the thematic nucleus constructed collectively and the reelaboration of the process of qualification on the part of the investigator supported in systematization studies. The third chapter takes care of the pedagogical model of the experiences of popular education. The sense of the qualification is explored from the categories of analysis; the relation is analyzed education work; the conflicts in the context of the experiences of popular education are characterized and the pedagogical and methodologic foundations of the model are formulated. In the conclusions they emphasize the sense of the experiences for the educative subjects and the meaning of the pedagogical model and the methodologic process of the investigation doing emphasis in the importance of the participation, the dialogue and the negotiation like pedagogical strategies for the development of different styles from learning. The recommendations are formulated for the decision making in relation to institutional the educative policy and the pedagogical reorientation of the Programs of Popular Education.

Date of Award	24 Feb 2005
Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Supervisor	Pere Sola Gussinyer (Director)