Complex thinking to improve the professional teacher profile in Colombia. A transdisciplinary research pilot study within an interuniversity network

Abstract

The objective of this research is to strengthen - within an inter-university network - the construction of the professional profile of teachers from a complex point of view, in order to improve the processes of citizen training in the public schools of Tunjuelito (Bogotá, Colombia). The methodology used is quantitative, descriptive, analytical, interpretive and non-experimental. For the collection of information, didactic methods and strategies based on UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education (GCED) and Morin's complex thinking have been used. The work theoretically reflects on the level of training of teachers and its incidence in improving the dialogical, critical, autonomous and collective learning of students. As a result, it was identified that the teachers of these schools want to continue developing educational processes that improve the citizenship training of their students to: 1) enable the processes of democratic participation, 2) teach the human condition that allows them to recognize themselves as part of a planetary civilization, 3) assume responsibility for the local and global needs of their socio-environmental contexts. To conclude, the need to continue working on citizen training in the different social contexts in which the universities associated with the NETWORK insist is postulated from a complex and transdisciplinary educational philosophical perspective that responds to the socio-environmental challenges of the 21st century.