Entre la calidez y el debido proceso. Interacciones docente-estudiante en el aula de ciencias sociales e historia.

Abstract

This text reports on a research that focused on analyzing the practices of practicing teachers in the area of social sciences and history in basic and secondary education in Colombia. In particular, the analysis of the interactions between teachers and stu-dents in the classroom is presented, based on observations of three teachers in the city of Bogotá and responses to in-depth interviews with 24 teachers from Bogotá, Cali and Medellín. The importance that teachers give to the appropriate treatment of their students, the ways to get their attention, name them and celebrate their progress, as well as the way to handle unforeseen situations in their classes, are highlighted. The teachers in the area make use of a set of oral and gestural repertoires in their relationship with the students that each of them identify, and whose staging oscillates between the search for the student’s recognition and the care of the norm. The study of teacher-student interactions is a fundamental part of the dynamics of school knowledge and culture that vindicates the power of the knowledge and pedagogical practice that happens in the classrooms, with scope that transcends the desire to transfer disciplinary historical knowledge.