Educational innovation and collective construction to internalize and resignify knowledge

A documental exploration

Abstract

This research was developed with the objective of characterizing educational innovation, through a documentary review and the analysis of theoretical material that accounts for its use in education settings. Likewise, it attempted to identify the recurrent subject matters when addressing educational innovation, and thus, its categories depending on its applicability: adaptive and transformative. As well as it aimed at connecting the three main issues that educational innovation embraces: context, problem statement and critical analysis, as fundamental sources for the construction of science which contribute to problem solving. To do this, 400 articles were examined, out of which 96 belonged to the ​​basic sciences field, leading to the conclusion that, in the last 5 years, ICTs and gamification are the most frequent thematic lines. This explains the easy adaptation to the pandemic circumstances by educational centers to shifting to virtual classes. Hence, according to the Institute for Educational Research and Pedagogical Development (IDEP), innovation is characterized by "resilience, creativity and flexibility."