Educational practice under the lens of the theory of activity
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Teaching quality, university, activity systemAbstract
A case study was carried out to analyze the configuration of good educational practices in a private Argentine university, through the observation of classes and interviews with professors and students. Based on the Activity Theory and the ecological approach to educational practice, in the classroom system that configures a quality educational practice, students and teachers are involved in a training process characterized by the sociocultural exchange of expectations, experiences, attitudes and knowledge around a consensual object, which is transformed through its interactions into a product that evidences the learning results. Sociocultural mediations –physical and symbolic– interweave in the construction of a community with clearly established rules and division of labor. The horizontality of the feedback between students in instances of revision and correction of the works evidences collaborative learning.
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