Miradas para reconstruir la realidad - Neli Silva Castro

El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en el niño de educación primaria
Abstract
The research referred to in this paper aims to recover knowledge about the ways in which primary
education teachers are promoting the development of critical thinking in their students, seeking the
achievement of one of the central purposes of the plan of studies of that level. This research seeks to
recover knowledge about the promotion of critical thinking development in primary school children.
The Object of study is: How is the development of critical thinking promoted in primary school
students? The justification considers the need to encourage critical thinking in students through a
reflective teaching practice, which must be reflexive in order to regain what is happening, the way in
which it works and the obtained results. The objective: recognize the strategies used by the teacher to
promote critical thinking in primary school children. There will be applied a mixed research method:
descriptive scope of cross section (includes hypothesis) and it pretends to generate a diagnostic and an
alternative proposal that promotes solutions to the studied situation. The population sample includes
three primary schools in the city of Morelia, Mich. Including the totality of the teachers and the
students of the groups from fifth to sixth grade. At this time, the project has a development of 40%,
according to the route set for its progress.
Keywords: teaching practice, critical thinking, didactic strategies.
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