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Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
Print version ISSN 0123-3432
Abstract
DIAZ MONSALVE, Ana Elsy and QUIROZ POSADA, Ruth Elena. WHOLE EDUCATION: AN APPROACH FROM RESEARCH. Íkala [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.3, pp.17-29. ISSN 0123-3432.
In this article, the results of a research inquiring about representations that primary education English teachers from some public institutions in the city of Medellin, Colombia have about ideal of comprehensive education are presented. From a qualitative research approach, an open-ended question survey was implemented to 19 teachers and subsequently an in-depth interview was carried out to 5 teachers. Information collected was subject to the technique of critical discourse analysis by Teun Van Dijk (2003). The main findings revealed that these representations show five main thematic areas: (1) whole education for a multidimensional human being; (2) education of a valuable human being; (3) whole education, foreign language learning and different culture approaching; (4) whole education, foreign language teaching and autonomous people; (5) whole education and communicative competence in foreign language. It was found that teachers' representations about whole education have a marked ethic and moral, values and rules emphasis-and that it, being analyzed from foreign language teaching, must not be limited to basic linguistic structures usage in daily and immediate communication contexts.
Keywords : education; pedagogy; teaching; learning; foreign language; representations.