Innovative didactic experience in the training of teachers of primary education. Didactic subject of the social sciences

Abstract

The article brings together experiences, stories and testimonies of an innovative didactic experience developed in the subject Didactics of the Social Sciences in the training of teachers of Primary Education. The collection of information was carried out using techniques such as participant observation and conducting interviews with students, and instruments such as field diaries were used to document the significant aspects observed in the classroom. The results of the systematization describe a set of didactic methodologies that, without claiming to be a methodical outline of solutions, lead the reader to a niche of self-reflection about what is beyond what we do daily in the classroom. Therefore, in his writing  each of the following methodologies developed are described: Pedagogical innovation at the beginning and end of a class, innovative didactic strategies, socialization, participation and collective construction of learning, and the classroom epicenter of innovation. At the end, a brief reflection is made on the emerging challenges that teachers have in front of pedagogical innovation as an inescapable task in the learning processes of the XXI Century,and by way of conclusion, it is maintained that the implementation of participatory methodologies generates more motivation and greater conditions for the construction of significant learning in the student body.