Principios del constructivismo en la propuesta pedagógica institucional de la Unidad Educativa Particular Bilingüe Nuestra Familia de la ciudad de Cuenca

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Abstract:Constructivism is a pedagogical theory, which is based on making the student the principal protagonistof his learning process, by building his own knowledge according to certain principles, which have been stablished by some authors. In this context, the main objective of this work was to analyze the pedagogical proposal of the Nuestra Familia Bilingual Educational Unit, which is located in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, in order to explain the contribution of Constructivism to its students learning process, as well as determine if the principles of this approach were stablished in the institutional model. To complete this part, the methodology of Content Analysis was applied, in a qualitative research by categorizing the ideas presented in the pedagogical proposal and comparing them to each principle of the constructivist theory. As a result, although the institution education planning had been clearly influenced by the constructivist theory, as it as it combined two models, the constructivist one and the humanist one. It was clear that the they had adapted some of these principles into their way of working.