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The current teacher and his reflective perspective on educational quality
Authors: Oelsa Hernández-de-Figueredo
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Generating a reflective perspective of the XXI century teacher on educational quality guided this research; In order to understand the vision of educational quality that the teacher has, which leads him to a reflective process about his educational praxis. For this purpose, a study was carried out under the current of postpositivist thought postulates, with a qualitative approach and an interpretive paradigm. The method used was the hermeneutic, whose ultimate goal is an explicit interpretation of the phenomenon under study. The information gathering techniques used were the in-depth interview and participant observation. The key informants were three subjects, for the information processing the categorization and triangulation of sources were used. Among the findings is that the teacher recognizes that, to achieve the optimization of educational quality, a trained teacher is required, with the necessary knowledge and skills that allow the teaching and learning process to be properly planned, being efficient and effective in the application of the strategies, methods and instruments suitable for imparting a quality process. Among the reflections, the need to redefine the teacher's profile is evident, towards a teacher with a critical and reflective behavior regarding the importance of their pedagogical practice with social evolution, considering that the teacher-student interaction forces them to have a direct knowledge of all those situations that have allowed the evolution of different societies.