Research From the Classroom: Research Seedbeds in Colombian Secondary Education

Abstract

This document presents the educational research model from the classroom implemented at the Colegio Gimnasio Campestre El Rodadero, in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. This model consisted of creating a research seedbed integrating middle school students, with the aim of generating academic spaces that would allow the development of investigative skills from the area of humanities, according to the guidelines that the national Ministry of Education proposes. For this, the anthropological theory of the didactic was implemented, understanding education as a social process of cultural transmission. Methodologically, school ethnography and action research were applied. The results, for this case, show that the creation of seedbeds strengthens the investigative competences in the students through collective work, encouraging them to be interested in science and research, in contrast to the formalist and unilinear methodologies traditionally used.