Estrategias metodológicas para el fortalecimiento del pensamiento crítico en los estudiantes del grado segundo de básica primaria de la Institución Educativa Colegio Fe y Alegría del municipio de Los Patios.

Abstract

This research was based on the implementation of the strengthening of critical thinking, in the students of the second grade of primary school of the faith and joy school educational institution, located in the municipality of Los Patios. Critical thinking is a process where it is proposed to analyze, understand and evaluate the way in which the acquired knowledge is organized in order to interpret and represent society the different opinions or statements that in real life are usually accepted as true, For this reason it is important to observe in each student looking at how they are in the analysis of texts, in the understanding and in association of reality. The project was developed under an interpretive epistemological approach, with the method of pedagogical action research, using different types of data collection such as: the questionnaire, the semi-structured interview, which served as support to obtain results as far as In the classrooms, the pedagogical processes that teachers develop, there is an absence of alternative and emerging methodologies that lead to better learning and develop higher thinking skills such as analysis, understanding, interpretation, decision making, transfer and assessment. in order to respond to a need that was observed in the institution. Taking into account the results obtained, an action plan is structured and implemented that, as an educational proposal, contributes to provide elements of analysis, interpretation and appropriation of the use of active and participatory pedagogies, pleasing the educational work and satisfactory results in the mission of integrally forming to schoolchildren from such early ages. It is relevant to show that students are open to innovative methodologies generating learning, motivation, high levels of concentration, attention and highly participatory.