A challenge in pedagogical innovation: The learning guides

Abstract

In the current context, pedagogical innovation is a constant debate that confronts the teaching staff of the different educational subsystems and of the different areas of knowledge, and that is that the knowledge society has led us to analyze and reflect on such a recurrent and daily didactic resource that teachers have implemented in their educational practices, we refer to didactic guides, learning guides, or study guides as we have popularly called it in the Nicaraguan educational context. In this sense, from an interpretative and qualitative perspective, the team of researchers generates a space for questioning, criticism, and reflection around the concept and structure of a learning guide, and takes the discussion to its climax by making explicit the differences between the study guides and the questionnaires. Finally, the article concludes with the presentation of a proposal for a learning guide, which was piloted and validated in a Secondary Education Institute, with the objective that teachers incorporate this innovative element in their teaching practices and encourage the improvement of quality of student learning since this is an excellent didactic resource if it is designed and applied correctly in the learning processes.