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Authors: Cemarlis Mariana Blanco-Solórzano

The work’s objective was to study the strategies used by teachers for teaching multiplication in Primary Education students. This research assumes the field modality supported by the documentary review, descriptive level, under the quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design. The population was constituted for 4th 5th and 6th grade student of the Subsistema de Educación Primaria in the Escuela Básica “Joaquín Crespo” of San Juan de los Morros (Guárico state, Venezuela). Data collection was a result of direct observation and interview. The information analysis techniques were the categorization and triangulation, as a result, of the observation and the application test. In addition, the diagnosis of the observations showed that teachers continue works with a traditional teaching of the multiplication. They neglect the application of strategies that lead the student to achieve knowledge acquisition. In conclusion, the cognitive processes categories, interactivity and participation should be strengthened as fundamental aspects in the development of creative strategies, in orden to adequate adaptation of the knowledge of the multiplication process.

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Authors: Brígida Siolet Rangel de Montero

The study of different school realities and the readjustment of research methodologies in the subject of evaluation have long gained strength as a perspective that seeks to improve the teaching practice, its effects and results, in learning and its evaluation. Therefore, this research was intended to generate a systematization of qualitative evaluation from the perspective of teachers at the basic level. Methodologically the qualitative approach was followed, with the ethnographic method. Three teachers of the basic level were selected as key informants. In addition, the participant observation and in-depth interview were used as techniques. For the analysis, categorization, structuring and triangulation were applied. Regarding the findings, the divorce between the new evaluation paradigms and the old quantitative and instrumentalist ways of learning and the students ́ knowledge could be revealed. Finally, the findings revealed that implementation of the new Diseño Curricular del Sistema Educativo Bolivariano is an educational policies interpretation in orden to respond to the political-social model. In conclusion, to understand that the evaluation in this design is conceived in an integral way and varies according to its educational level. Therefore, Inicial y Primaria Bolivariana will be qualitative according to the advances and achievements.

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Authors: Nury Puentes

In recent years, Venezuelan education has been highly criticized, either by the methods used by the teacher to teach or the way he learns and the way the student is perceived in society. Hence, this research was intended to understand the gnoseological vision of teacher planning by areas of knowledge in the U.E.N. “Maestro Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa” in Aragua state Girardot Municipality (Venezuela). Methodologically, it was supported by post-positivist epistemology, with a qualitative approach and the dialectical hermeneutical method. We worked with five institutions’ teachers. The survey was used with the modality of the in-depth interview for the collection of the information. The categorization, structuring and triangulation were applied. As the results, the informants agreed that planning by areas of knowledge is a good way to organize learning, but that they lack much to learn, since they have weaknesses in making the integration. In conclusion, it was revealed that teachers have an episteme in relation to theory, but do not put into practice what they know.

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Authors: Angelina Velásquez

This article has as a general objective to propose strategies based on orality for the strengthening of the Pemón language in indigenous children of the Center of Initial Education of the community “San Ignacio de Yuruaní”. The research had aimed at identifying the factors that have influenced the impairment of the language within the linguistic community that makes life in that center. Through this work, the collected information, has allowed us to detect what have been the elements and factors that hinder the teaching and learning processes of the Pemón Taurepan language. Consequently, obtained results were that support the proposal of a design that promotes linguistic competencies through oral practice and the study of the ancestral forms manifested in their conversational structures. To promote the rescue of cultural values and traditions is expecting, due to their language disuse, are in danger of extinction. It concluded that, to preserve the indigenous roots of the Pemón Taurepan language need, is urgently. Through the orality promotion, which is the basis on which the preservation and cultural exaltation of this ethnic group is based.

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Authors: María de los Milagros Machado-Ávila

The institutional climate has a multifunctional and globalizing character in which many factors can determine productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of workers. This article aims to analyze the organizational climate from the perspective of its actors in the National Adult Education Unit “Escuela Taller Monseñor Arias Blanco” (Aragua state, Venezuela). In this case, we investigated the way in which the members perceive the leadership, support and control of the director, in addition to the effectiveness and efficiency in planning and organization of school activities, integration, and degree of belonging and interpersonal relationships of the educational community. Methodologically, the interpretive paradigm was followed, with emphasis on the study ethnographic. The participant observation and interview were used as information gathering technique semi-structured. The result showed that the institution has a tense climate, with an autocratic and authoritarian leader, with divisions among the staff and with a negative vision of the school by the community of the sector.

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Authors: Erasmo Silvestre-Da Silva

The article general objective is to present a proposal of one Pedagógical strategies and activities program in order to improve the effective use of information and communication technologies, in the educational praxis of secondary education teachers, in the municipality Gran Sabana of the Bolivar state. Methodologilly it is a field investigation and a feasible project modality. A dichotomous questionnaire was use, with 20 items. It was conclude that information and communication technologies are a valuable tool that can help teachers define management strategies for available technological resources for the enhancement of its applications, the maximization of benefits and the appropriate adoption of the changes caused by the appropriation of this type of resources in the educational field.

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Authors: Graciano González - Lorna Venezuela Guzmán-Farfán

The research focused on evaluating the curricular designs of two Venezuelan universities: the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL) and the Universidad Nacional Experimental Indígena de Venezuela (UNEIV) Undergraduate, in attention to Intercultural Bilingual Education and own education. The research method used was evaluative within the qualitative approach, supported in the design of documentary analysis at the descriptive level. The curricular designs of the mentioned Universities were analyzed and, an instrument called data collection matrix, was used in which all the information related to both designs was deposited, which were analyzed comparing interculturality and own education. It was concluded that both universities are different because UPEL-IPREM, although it does offer training in the bilingual intercultural area, is with a Pedagógical purpose and a more general vision: train teachers in these areas, while UNEIV prepares communities leaders with a strong indigenous presence from an ancestral worldview.

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Authors: José Alejandro Barrios

This article’s propose is to present a Co-responsibility Community Plan in order to strengthen citizen security, in the town of San Francisco de Asís of the Municipality of Zamora in the Aragua state. For guarantee to the community the participation strategies to design a security and violence prevention plans. Through implementing the police body’s transformation and strengthening the citizenship concept with the community organization. It is expects that this plan boost the organized communities participation as proactive agents for crime and violence prevention. This research, methodologically, was support by a field study. A non-experimental design was apply, of the descriptive level and the feasible project modality. Two likers scale ́s type questionnaires, were prepare to be answer by the Communal Councils of San Francisco de Asís spokespersons and the Police Command authorities. In conclusion, today more than ever, for the success and legitimacy of public action the citizens must be take into account. In order to guarantee the citizen participation established by the Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela (1999), reactivating and involving the population in security matters. Therefore, it is recommend creating surveillance, preventive and educational joint groups that, conjunctively with the communal councils, police and the citizens urging compliance with ordinances to fight crime.

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Authors: Edinete Mesquita - Pablo José Betancourt

The purpose of the present investigation involves the design of a Guide theory of pedagogical strategies of participative integration: family school and community, in the intercultural bilingual context of the Bolivar state. Methodology: quantitative paradigm in the special project modality, with support in a descriptive field research. The population: eight teachers, a managerialstaff and a representative of the Communal Council and parents and representatives. The techniques: documentary review, interview and survey. The Instruments: the file, the interview script and the questionnaire. The results: there are difficulties on thepart of the school to promot e community integration and participation. Only regional and national agencies promote these activities. They do not focus on strengthening and raising awareness of the participation of all community actors. A Pedagogical Guidewas designed to strengthen the school community integration directed to teachers of the E.I.B. "San Ignaci o Yuruani".

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Authors: Hilaria Zerpa - José Gimón

Games are one of the most relevant activities for human development and are an essential part of the process of socialization of children. The purpose of this research is to propose ludic strategies to strengthen the use of the Pemón Taurepan language by the teachers and 5th grade students of the E.I.B -indigenous community kumrakapay, of the Gran Sabana Municipality, of the state of Bolívar , Venezuela. The methodology used is based on a feasible project, field investigation, of a descriptive nature. To obtain the necessary data in the study, the survey was used and the questionnaire was used as an instrument. It was concluded that games are fundamental strategies to strengthen the use of the Pemón-Taurepan language.

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Authors: Altenice de Jesús Serrão-Amorim - Luis Medina Beltrán-Osio

The purpose of this research entitled: Pemon Peoples values: an approach through the life story of Kendall Donald Mitchell, was to interpret in the discourse the importance of family and values in the life legacy of Lord Kendall Donald Mitchell of the indigenous community of San Francisco de Yuruani, of the Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar State. Through this work the sociocultural and most relevant events of a relational dialectical relationship of the actors are unveiled. The paradigm to which it is ascribed is the Interpretative under a phenomenological hermeneutical current. The research method isthe history of life, which allowed understanding the individual from the context of their own experiences. For the collection of the information, the participant observation, the in-depth interview and the field diary were used. The results reflect the principle of unity as a fundamental value, with the family being the best expression and in this context the values that allow us to approach the human condition in a world of relationships arise.