Immersed - Social Studies Academic Magazine: A Creation of Teenagers in Cundinamarca (Colombia)

Abstract

This study considers the entire process of creating the first academic magazine by teenagers between 15 years old until 18 years old about research projects of social sciences. The main idea is to present the pedagogical and methodological process to teach how to do research in young people; starting from the creation of a research question and finishing with the methodological part of the research process. Furthermore, is important to communicate the experience being the first academic magazine of young people in the city of Mosquera (Cundinamarca) of Colombia. Firstly, the idea is to present the pedagogical process showing to the audience the challenges that means to go against the statu quo of a society that dislike to teach this kind of processes to that specific population. Secondly, to show them the magazine itself showing the results of different research project related with anime, cartoons, music, paintings, tv shows, etc. having, of course, a strong academic process behind. Finally, we review the experience and how useful this kind of pedagogical processes are now that they are used in different universities of Colombia.

Presenters

Sebastian Trujillo Pedraza
Teacher, Social Studies, Melanie Klein School, Distrito Capital de Bogotá, Colombia

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Educational Studies

KEYWORDS

EDUCATION, ACADEMIC MAGAZINE,TEACHING, RESEARCH PROJECTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, COLOMBIA

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