Active Methodologies

From Text to Context - A Possible Approach

Abstract

The article active methodology: From the text to the context - A possible approach - consists of a bibliographic essay that relates didactic procedures denominated of active methodologies with the epistemological principles of the main progressive pedagogical tendencies, giving them theoretical and scientific support and constituting like a methodological didactic alternative capable of satisfying the peculiarities of the current social context and pedagogical relations that values the student and places it at the center of the process of teaching and learning meaningful .. The study searches in the studies of authors that resort to the basic assumptions of the New School Movement (From the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century) and from Vygotsky's Theories (1896-1934), Dewey (1859-1952), Ausubel (1918-2008) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997) and their association of principles in active methodologies as well as technically sound didactic procedures that can be pedagogical practices.