The Pedagogy of language in Colombia: A state of the art La Pedagogía del lenguaje en Colombia: un estado del arte Language and training in Colombian school

Abstract

This document is intended to report on the background study of the project entitled “A pedagogy of language and communication within the cultural and communicative practices of the young people from public schools in Bogotá” as part of the Interinstitutional Doctorate on Education from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The research explores the underlying relationship between language training, communicative practices of the young people, and cultural matrixes. Furthermore, the discrepancy between the public policy for the teaching of language in Colombia, the contemporary pedagogical approaches, students’ communicative practices and the cultural matrixes that support them, will be unveiled.

A document analysis has been conducted for the review of antecedents. It focuses on the pedagogical practice of language in Colombia, understood as the daily scenario for teachers and students’ being, acting, and thinking modes. For that, findings will be presented as follows: 1) a reconstruction of the pedagogical practice in language in Colombia; 2) a characterization of this practice under the Latin American and European perspective; 3) the fundamentals of the Colombian educational policy; and 4) the relationship between communication, culture, and pedagogy from a sociocultural approach. Lastly, a closing reflection on the findings of the research antecedents will be exposed.