Teaching Innovation

Since joining the European Higher Education Area, it is emphasized in the improvement of learning through innovative teaching techniques. The teacher's model is dismissed as the simple transmitter of knowledge for a teacher who facilitates learning and establishes a living and specific relationship with his students.

This process recognizes two types of knowledge that the student must acquire: cognitive knowledge, which is directly related to the subject, and emotional and attitudinal knowledge, which are related to the values and ethics that the future student will apply in the development of his professional career and in his cultural environment. Current university learning focuses primarily on the cognitive context. However, from LESEC we are also interested in addressing emotional and attitudes that are related to the values and ethics that the future student will apply in the development of their professional career and in their cultural environment. This interest is closely linked to the principles of Education for Sustainable Development (EDS).

EDS is a dynamic concept that puts in value all the aspects of public awareness, education and training to raise awareness or make better understand the links between the problems related to sustainable development and to advance the knowledge, capacities, ways of thinking and values so that each one can be given, regardless of age, the means to assume responsibility for creating a viable future and taking advantage of it ( http://es.unesco.org/)

EDS requires participatory methods of teaching and learning that motivate students and provide them with autonomy, in order to change their behavior and facilitate the adoption of measures for sustainable development. It promotes the acquisition of competences such as critical thinking, the preparation of hypotheses for the future and the collective adoption of decisions. The EDS demands major changes in the pedagogical methods that are currently applied.

Specific Lines:

- Design of active and participatory methodologies: case study, Aronson puzzle, role play, service learning

- Collaborative workshops to solve local problems in the hands of its actors.

- Formative evaluation as a learning process.

- Teaching outings to facilitate direct contact with certain territorial intervention processes

- Information and communication technologies: the blog Territories Vives