Alterity and vocation: a bet to improve teaching processes in early childhood

• Main Author: Natalia Sánchez-Rincón
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Caldas 2020-01-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos
• Subjects: alterity; pedagogical action; experience; meaning
• Online Access: http://190.15.17.25/latinoamericana/downloads/Latinoamericana16(1)_8.pdf

This paper covers part of the results of the research project “Meaning of alterity: a look from the teachers at Centro de Desarrollo Infantil Pelusa Manizales” whose main interest is to understand the meaning that the teachers of the Centro de Desarrollo Infantil Pelusa in Manizales” give to the relationships of alterity in their pedagogical action. The theoretical contributions by Lévinas, Skliar, van Manen and Larrosa form the central core for addressing the main categories: alterity, pedagogical action and experience. The methodology used corresponds to a qualitative approach that is supported by Ricoeur’s hermeneutical phenomenological method and Greimas’ content analysis method. This methodology allowed, among other things, to achieve one of the most significant results that translates into the following structure: Vocation is to feel love for the other in what is done.