Mentefactos conceptuales, estrategia didáctica, para fomentar el pensamiento crítico en estudiantes del grado décimo del Colegio Salesiano Bicentenario.

Abstract

The pedagogical practice carried out with the students of the tenth grade "A" that is part of the Bicentennial Salesian School, located in the Antonia Santo neighborhood, of the citadel of Juan Atalaya, where notorious shortcomings were observed in reading comprehension and textual production. For this reason, pedagogical strategies related to the design of conceptual mindsets focused on directing critical thinking were designed to improve these fundamental aspects of academic performance. The specific objectives were: To make a diagnosis related to critical thinking, in order to identify the main shortcomings and thus be able to design pedagogical strategies related to mindsets. Under a descriptive-quantitative methodology because it was based on a statistical diagnosis that was used in the first stage of the present study. As a result, it was possible to show that the different interventions of the teacher in training optimally helped to improve academic performance with the construction of conceptual mindsets, which were vital for the evolution of critical thinking, which is based on argumentation and interpretation of the topics in debates, to have a concept for or against a topic that is studied in depth and can present personal criteria according to their investigative process.