Meanings attributed by university students to a teaching innovative experience based on social constructionism

Abstract

Our study shows how students make sense of a teaching innovative experience at university, which develops the teaching-learning process based on social constructionism (Gergen, 2015). Their judgements were analysed from the emic perspective (San Martín, 2014), using ATLAS.ti7 software for qualitative analysis. Students (26) express that they have lived through an unusual educational experience, being flexibility its main quality, a finding congruent with pedagogical proposals linked to the co-construction of knowledge. The meanings given by students revalue face-to- face education, as the classroom turns into the arena where unusual learning and a boom of ideas can take place, highlighting its usefulness as a relational space which nourishes collaborative creativity. Challenges also emerge and invite for further reflection on how to keep designing innovative education proposals at universities from the perspective of relational generation of knowledge.

Keywords

• educación superior
• innovación educativa
• construccionismo social
• voces de estudiantes