School narratives and innovation in university education. A contribution to the CIDUA model

Authors

  • David Herrera Pastor
  • Rocío Jiménez Cortés
  • José Ignacio Rivas Flores

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2008.123.5329

Abstract

Innovation and renewal of the teaching methodologies are a constant concern in the university’s context. The recent reform proposals stress innovation as the most important form of improvement at the university level. In fact, the experience that we present constitutes a step forward at this stage of changes and is a result of the concerned and probing attitude of the teaching team responsible for its design, creation and development. In this sense, this article contains a teaching programme used for the subject “Organización y Gestión de Centros Educativos”1, which is part of the course of pedagogy at the University of Málaga. This programme is a practical example of the guidelines for University Teaching Innovation outlined in the report published by CIDUA2. The innovative design focuses on the students’ biography as the main element of analysis to develop the subject matter. In order to do so, the students get into a combination of different activities and organisational modalities arisen from their school accounts. The methodology implies a series of parallel and at the same time complementary activities around the axis of the subject contents. The organisational structure integrates various groupings, time periods and areas (virtual and real). All of the latter is supplemented and made more dynamic through the virtual campus of the university.

Key words: educative innovation, university teaching, CIDUA model, teaching methodology, student biography and school organization.

Published

2021-06-01