Imaginarios sobre la diferencia cultural en estudiantes de pregrado de la Facultad de Educación, caso Universidad de Pamplona.

Abstract

The imaginaries have been taken as centre of interest for this research, particularly those about Culture differences from undergraduates of bachelor's degree Education that belong to Pamplona University, the access to the imaginary configuration on future professionals of education allow us to understand on the one hand, sensemaking that has been instituted by the traditional dynamics into social, cultural and educational context, on the other hand to foresee other possible meanings to achieve the transformation of established educational practices, forms of segregationist coexistence, exclusive or superficial, and also to understand how cultural difference is valued, as an opportunity to build othernesses which are valid and necessary in living together, even more, in educational contexts. This research aims characterize the imaginaries of undergraduates of bachelor’s degree at the University of Pamplona, from a qualitative approach with an descriptive-interpretative trend, according to the definition of social imaginary built by Cornelius Castoriadis, “The historical social institution is something on and so manifests and is the social imaginary. This institution is an institution of a magma of significances, the social imaginary significations (1989, p. 122). Likewise, it was proposed to identify these imaginaries (through the narratives of participants) in their experiences, feelings and expectations, their relationship with educational practices and training processes they receive, and the impacts on their relationships of university coexistence.