Social skills and critical thinking: the learning portfolio-folder as a pedagogical device in secondary education students
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portfolio-folder, transition, social skills, critical thinkingAbstract
In an educational context that demands critical and socially competent students, this research determines how the progressive use of the class folder and its transition into a learning portfolio contributes to the development and strengthening of social skills and critical thinking in secondary education students. From a qualitative approach and under the case study strategy, the research redefines the use of the class folder as a formative instrument throughout an academic year. The study was conducted with third-cycle and tenth-grade students at the CIIE of the UPNFM (Honduras) in the subjects of social studies, civic education, and sociology. The results show that the redefinition of the school folder as a pedagogical device through its continuous use acts as a structuring mediation that articulates academic organization and social skills, particularly in collaborative work dynamics, argumentative communication, and academic co-responsibility. Likewise, a gradual strengthening of critical thinking is observed, expressed in processes of analysis, conceptual hierarchy, logical organization of ideas, and problem solving.
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