Investigaciones en las aulas escolares en apoyo del fortalecimiento de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje

Abstract

One relevant purpose for classroom research is to provide orientations for strengthening the quality of the learning opportunities that teachers design for their students. The 5 studies included in this special section provide alternative approaches to address this challenge by examining, with varying levels of specificity, pedagogical practices. These studies portray teaching practices and learning activities that pose low-level cognitive challenges to students, as well as examples of reform-oriented teaching. Collectively, these studies highlight the importance of classroom research that concomitantly examines teaching and learning. When studying teaching practices at the classroom level, explicitly connecting what individual teachers do with external factors that impinge upon their work is also needed to account for the situated and distributed character of professional knowledge.