This paper highlights the historical trends of high school Physical Education teachers improvement in Colombia. The objective is to assess the historical evolution of professional development and level of professional skills attained by Physical Education high-school. The historical-logical, inductive-deductive and analytical-synthetic methods were used based on the use of the following indicators: the policies established for the improvement of teachers; the ways instituted for the improvement of teachers; how the improvement of Physical Education teachers is designed; the educational models for the teaching of Physical Education and the improvement professional competences in the Physical Education in Colombia. The main finding is the identification historical trends mentioned above, describing the level of development achieved in each period and the features that characterized the professional performance of teachers at all times.

The paper describes the findings of a research aimed at assessing the importance of creating a culture of error during the process of teacher training. A framework was devised to back up the idea that the didactics of natural sciences serves may take advantage of the treatment of cognitive errors and their causes. Modeling is used in the design of the proposal, as well as procedures specific to action research to carried out the experimental introduction and controlling the results. The findings include the aforementioned framework and examples illustrating how to work with the cognitive errors from the teaching-learning process when studying the didactics of mathematics and physics.

This paper is aimed to examine the process of evaluation of teacher trainee’s preservice practice, on the light of the need to raise the quality of the educational teaching process for the development of the way of acting of this professional, expressed in a performance in accordance with the demands of society demands. The objective is to specify which dimensions and indicators can be used for the evaluation of the preservice practice and the criteria that support it, from the identification of the professional competencies to be attained. Documentary review and study of the results of the activity were used as fundamental research methods. The study provides the dimensions and indicators for the evaluation of the preservice practice of teachers under training.

The objective of this paper is to devise an alternative procedure to improve the teaching-learning process of Marxist Leninist philosophy. The study was carried out in a summer course intended to professional lawyer’s directives at the School of Politics of Camaguey. This procedure is characterized by the use of methods that promote students’ problem thinking. Several methods were used, such, as: documents analysis, lesson observation, the reflective workshop, and the Wilcoxon test. The effectiveness of procedure was assessed by using the pre-experimental methods during three consecutive courses. The finding proved to be feasible.

The paper is aimed to contextualizing humanist education in history teachers’ training from a social and cultural perspective to favors the graduates humanist performance. A dialectical-materialistic focus was given to the scientific methods, among them analysis and criticism of sources integrating  logical thinking procedures such as induction-deduction, analysis-synthesis and moving from abstract to the concrete perception one, the hermeneutic-dialectical and the systemic-structural-functional approaches, as well as modeling triangulation of sources, methods and theories. Modeling is structured according to the relationships that exist between the processes structuring the humanist identity content of education, to foster a comprehensive contextual as the main finding of the research.

A comprehensive education attempts to foster students to be industrious, responsible, friendly, independent, innovative, sensible, and determined. This paper aims at describing a formative project devised at Enrique Jose Varona Senior High School in Holguín City. The project engaged the students in creating El Varona dice newspaper, stimulating social research activity, reporting and preparing articles as means of developing vocational aptitudes towards journalism, history, social and educational sciences. After constructing the corresponding framework critical workshops, individual and group interviews were used as methods of inquiring. The main finding was a formative project that leads to designing and publishing a college newspaper. The students’ newspaper brought a change of attitudes on the part of the students in relation to labor activity, self-education and value education, as well as its extension to other senior high schools.

This paper approaches competent professional training as an alternative university competency-based education. The objective of the article is to analyze the competent formation of librarians and information sciences professionals from three different perspectives: the socio educative dimension, the curricular and didactic dimension and the professional attitudes. Several methods were used to complete the research: a curricular didactic conception was constructed to back up the curriculum of librarians and information sciences professionals trained at Ecuadorian universities. The findings outline the importance of the competency-based education at the majors just mentioned; highlight the relation between the socio educative dimension, the curricular and didactic dimension and the professional attitudes leading the researchers to arrive at the conclusion that this three-fold dimension model fosters the integration technological social and university demands.

The study was aimed at analyzing the process of identification of historical trends of the object evolution in doctoral dissertation research in the field of pedagogy, as well as to propose methodological guidelines facilitating its completion by the researchers. Text analysis was used as a variant of the method of analyzing the results of the activity in all the original scientific reports delivered to the Center for Studies of Educational Sciences "Enrique José Varona" of the University of Camagüey between 2015 and May 2017. The findings highlight the process of constructing the historical characterization of the investigated pedagogical object.

This research is based on the notion of didactic suitability criteria proposed by the Ontosemiótic Approach (OSA) of Mathematical Knowledge and Instruction (Godino, Batanero, and Font, 2007). It is aimed at describing the components and indicators for each of these criteria. Theoretical framework systematization and case study were used as fundamental methods; the latter was used to compare the proposed descriptors to the indicators of successful performance used by an in-service teacher to describe his teaching practice in his master degree dissertation. The components and indicators corresponding to each of the suitability criteria and its correspondence to teachers’ qualification description referred to in the case study are offered as a scientific result.

Objective: This work is contextualized in the Chilean crisis of 2019 that confronted society with the discussion about the legitimacy of the main foundations of its political, social and economic system. Its aim is to describe the meanings attributed by pedagogy students in history and geography, to citizenship education, considering their experience of participation during the social crisis. Methods: The study was conducted through content analysis with a qualitative approach. The corpus reviewed corresponds to seven first person accounts, that were analyzed from three aprioristic dimensions (civic skills and abilities, civic knowledge and values ??in citizen formation) and two emerging dimensions (emotions and pedagogical function of citizen formation). Results: The results show that citizen education, as an area of ??knowledge that is part of the educational system, acquires meanings in which conceptual dimensions of the theoretical field, skills and civic competences coexist, in addition to value-base orientations, in which it is impossible to subtract the emergence of the emotional as a reflexive domain that leads to the construction of pedagogical meaning. Conclusion: The main conclusions show that the challenges in teacher education lie in integrating the dimensions of citizen formation in reflective exercises, assuming that crises are learning scenarios in which democracy is built through civic self-intervention.

This paper is aimed at describing a model for schoolteacher coaching. The research training present work aims to propose a management model of pedagogical accompaniment for elementary school teachers. Theoretical methods were used to back up the proposal and modeling to devise the coaching system just mentioned. The research findings include the description of the system components, and the three dimensions used in coaching teacher at Dominican Republic 10 th district, as well as, the relations connecting these dimensions intended to pursue professional training of schoolteachers. 

This article is aimed at giving arguments to prove that adults suffering from lower joint pain may be instructed on rehabilitation aquatic techniques.  After constructing a framework, particularly related to the interaction between facilitators and elder adults and based on the relation between the cognitive and affective sphere, surveys were given to a sample of professional and aged people under rehabilitation at the Foundation of the Senior Citizens Experience Center (CEAM) in the province of Pichincha in Ecuador. The main finding is the description of a proposal of socio-educative intervention associated to the therapeutic treatment. 

The paper deals with the enrichment of the English lexicon by students of university technical majorings. The starting point is the establishment of intertextual relationships from the free voluntary reading of authentic texts related to this area of knowledge to favor the development of vocabulary in English so as to enable the students to carry out academic, scientific and pre-professional tasks in the foreign language.  From this perspective, a didactic strategy is offered to synthesize the phases and techniques to achieve this goal.

This article describes the findings of a research on the education of motives towards teaching profession. The query starts by examining teachers’ education shortcomings the authors aim at setting the description of a strategy for professional motives consolidation as the main objective. The strategy involves the enrolment of teachers’ staff, other socio-educative agents and the active participation of teacher trainees. The researchers rely on theoretical and empirical methods such as documental analysis, interviewing, giving questionnaires, analyzing the products of activity, the observation and the pre-experiment, together with Wilcoxon’s non-parametric test. The results of the application of the pedagogic strategy proved its effectiveness in promoting the professional reaffirmation in the formation of the future professors.