Resumen de Reflections Seen from Critical Pedagogy and other Related Theories to Nurture Prospective and In-Service Teachers’ Doing

Sonia Marisol Rojas Espitia, Nancy Barón Pereira

• This paper presents a contextualization of the Pedagogical and Research Projects addressed at the Uptc’s School of Languages. The discussion presents an emphasis on the fi rst issue: Contemporary Pedagogical Trends. Then, the reader will be presented with some refl ections of Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy and other related theories as new trends in education.The purpose is to link what these theories stand for, with what teachers do in their classrooms, mainly in the early stages of the pedagogical formation at Uptc. Some contributions of pedagogic contemporary related theories from the postmodernity are presented specifi cally from constructivism, cognitivist and socio-critical perspectives, seen from Piaget’s, Vigotsky’s, Freire’s and Dewey’s visions