El docente investigador. Algunas consideraciones para su formación profesional

Abstract

One of the substantive processes of the university is research, a primary activity for the improvement of teaching, through it a process of knowledge is developed that is based on social reality and thus establish the interrelation within the teaching / learning process and society, having trained research teachers. This theoretical reflection focuses on the research teacher as the main actor, and aims to substantiate the need to stimulate their training in universities, from the professional profile. Through the qualitative systematization of the various studies on the training of the research teacher in Latin American universities, it has allowed to analyze, find regularities and trends about the essential knowledge in the training of the research teacher, and which will be addressed in their training. Among these features are: analysis of the research teacher’s life project, a diagnosis that enables students to learn from their personal references; development of an ethical and responsible pedagogical practice; knowledge that stimulates critical and creative thinking; the formation of values and attitudes in specific social contexts; stimulate the motivations and affective processes of respect, through the teaching / learning process and the development of questioning, creative actions applied to practice