Principios del constructivismo social en la Propuesta Pedagógica Institucional

Abstract

Abstract: The Institutional Pedagogical Proposal (PEI) empowers teachers in their commitment to comprehensive teaching, as well as with the holistic production and transformation of the social culture of students for the institution and society when it is framed from the Social Constructivism and its principles. Thus, this document allows facing the new trends through contextualization, empowerment of the student community and innovation of didactics. Therefore, this research focuses on explaining the contribution of Social Constructivism to student learning as a foundation of the Institutional Pedagogical Proposal from the case study of the PEI of the Miguel de Cervantes Basic Education School located in the Zaruma canton. The analysis allows verifying that the document does comply with a social-constructivist foundation based on the five principles of social constructivism, being the core that makes up the science of education. In addition, the existing connection between the principles, the Organic Law of Intercultural Education (LOEI), the National Curriculum 2016 and the PEI, object of study, is assessed.