Ciencias de la Educación

Ciencias de la Educación

Moving from Colonial Research Tensions to Decolonial Research Trends

Astrid Núñez-Pardo Ph.D. María Fernanda Téllez-Téllez Ph.D. This qualitative documentary research framed within the socio critical paradigm emerged from our concerns as teacher educators and researchers in the emphasis of English didactics ascribed to the master’s programme in education at Universidad Externado de Colombia, regarding in-service teachers’ research practice. It […]

Rompiendo barreras: la cátedra paralímpica para la inclusión y la equidad

Esperanza López Reyes, Ph.D. Astrid Núñez Pardo, PhD. La inclusión y la equidad en la educación son pilares fundamentales para construir una sociedad justa y respetuosa. En palabras de  Rosa Blanco (2006),  “avanzar hacia una mayor equidad en educación sólo será posible si se asegura el principio de igualdad de […]

EFL Decolonized Materials Otherwise in Fostering Critical Intercultural Awareness in Pre-Service Cabin Crew

Viviana Lizeth Velasquez Almanza             When working in the airline industry, crew members, especially flight attendants, need to develop several skills to deal with issues related to passengers’ needs and airline services. One of these abilities has to do with the cultural communicative competence that flight attendants should develop to […]

Unsettling and Reconstructing Teachers’ Beliefs through Developing ELT Materials Otherwise

Astrid Núñez-Pardo, Ph.D. and María Fernanda Téllez-Téllez, Ph.D. Inquiring into teachers’ beliefs on developing “contextualised and decolonised EFL materials otherwise that are sensitive to cultural diversity” (Núñez-Pardo, 2022, p. 702) has not been explored. Our qualitative exploratory and descriptive case study examined English teachers’ beliefs in regard to developing ELT […]