Enseñanza de las ciencias sociales desde la ficción: una propuesta para desarrollar el pensamiento critico en la escuela

Abstract

It is the responsibility of the teacher progressively enhance the cognitive abilities of their students strengthen their capacities depth reflection and problem solving skills that exceed the basic processes of memorization and synthesis. The act of reflection in different situations and contexts, and knowledge of own reasoning are essential for cognitive and social development of the individual, which is why this research proposes the development of critical thinking since the implementation of teaching tools like fiction specifically the comic and the media. This paper deals primarily a theoretical observation of critical thought, through its application in academic environments and exploring the different teaching that are used to exercise this way of thinking in the classroom. Added to that, examines fiction from different media as relevant tools in the development of didactic teaching of Social Sciences strategies, and thus propose its own model where these tools are used to exercise critical thinking at school. Furthermore this research will be integrated into a classroom experience based on the use of fiction to address the knowledge given in the curriculum of Social Sciences at an educational institution in Bogotá.Additionally it is incorporated into the document a representative corpus of fiction that teachers can use based on the proposed development of critical thinking of their students from the area of Social Sciences model.