Generating investigative capacities in teachers of the Mayagna ethnic group

Abstract

Educational research is a module of the Diploma in Curriculum Design and Teaching Materials for Strengthening the Intercultural Bilingual Education (EIB) of the Mayangna. The module is based on the results of the diagnosis aimed at 77 teachers from different communities with pedagogical, didactic, investigative and curricular needs, since during previous decades they were not favored in these competences, for their teaching practice. Educational research is the first module, whose objectives were: 1. Strengthen research knowledge, skills and attitudes. 2. Apply the investigative techniques for the following modules of the diploma and the adaptation of the profile and the curricular mesh according to context, contemporary theories and educational policies of the country, to elevate the learning processes of the boys and girls of the Mayangna communities-The applied methodology was the participative active one, where the teachers worked in teams and individually, according to planning, managing to develop competences by applying the theoretical knowledge of documentary research and action research, in the realization of curricular diagnoses for the adaptation of the profile, the Curricular mesh and preparation of texts in the initial and primary education modality. Considering that the research was a transversal axis in the diploma course, it was possible to emphasize the leading role of Mayagna teachers, with an inclusive, participatory, dynamic, active and proactive character, which allowed generating investigative capacities for the adaptation of curricular documents according to the context and their economic and social needs.