Metodología STEAM y Formación Docente en Educación Básica: Una Experiencia desde los Actores

The purpose of this work was to analyze the STEAM Methodology in the context of the training of Basic Education teachers, with a mixed approach, descriptive scope, non-experimental design, bibliographic and field type, the population was made up of 30 education students. higher basic and two institutional authorities. The survey for students and the interview for institutional authorities were used as a technique, with a structured questionnaire and a question guide as instruments. The results show that students highlight the increase in reflective capacity and autonomy to generate their own ideas as the main benefits of the STEAM methodology. Institutional authorities, for their part, highlight the importance of this innovative methodology in the potentialization of self-knowledge, the expression of their personality in the projects, as well as the connection that this methodology has with others. For the students of the Basic Education Program, the experience of closely perceiving the methodology process was motivating, agreeing that the teacher must continually prepare to create an educational environment that provides freedom in the creativity and autonomy of the student within an active pedagogical process.