Analysis of the teacher’s perception of student's learning consciousness in participatory activities

Abstract

We find ourselves in a society in which learning has changed dramatically, due to various factors such as the improvement of educational technology, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 or the advancement of the knowledge society. That is why it is not only important to train students in the contents of the official curricula of each of the Autonomous Communities, but it is also necessary to seek for students to acquire a set of key skills, acquired in formal or non-formal contexts, that allows them to develop as people and can efficiently access the labor market. For this reason, a participatory didactic proposal was planned and designed to help acquire these key competencies. We ask ourselves the research question: Are the students aware of their learning when carrying out participatory activities? as a concern of our research group when developing the didactic proposal with a group of 1st year Secondary Education from the Vía Dalmacia Institute in the town of Torrejoncillo. Semi-structured interviews wereconducted with fourkeyinformants, who wereteachers who participated in the planning and development of the experience. A qualitative methodology was used with a phenomenological dilemma, based on content analysis. Among the results obtained, it stands out that the teachers preferentially think that the students are aware of their learning bycarrying out theactivities. In addition, the factors that improve this perception are having an active role, collaboration, interest and curiosity. On the other hand, among the factors that hinder students’ awareness of learning are immaturity and lack of self-perception. The didactic proposal carried out has helped to verify which are the factors in which the teaching staff should focus so that the students can be aware of the key competences they acquire.