The didactic contract in the higher education: Elements for understand it.

Arboleda Riascos, Armando | 2012

The university must be seen as the space that enables reflection about the knowledge that is present there, strengthening the investigation of the same. In this sense Armando Zambrano (2003) admonishes when he manifests that one of the functions of the university is teaching and in this is identified the transfer of knowledge. For this it is necessary to stop and observe the forms of teaching of the teachers, the relationships between the participants, the place of the knowledge and the forms of its transference in the classroom. The concept of didactc contract offers a possibility to understend the relationships that are interwoven in the classroom: Teacher-student-knowledge-context. Inthe search to uncover the sense of the concept, to focal groups were taken from studnts of two public universities of Buenventura: "Universidad del Valle" and "Universidad del Pacifico". The programs in which the research took place were business management and sociology, the subjects were statistics and the general elective of ethno-education. Observing 40 and 20 students during one year respectively. As a result, finding that speak of educational affairs academic expectations, new forms of pedagogic contracts and cognitive construction in pertinent contexts were obtained