The purpose of this work is to show the convenience of formative research as a learning tool of human rights. With this purpose, first it describes the most extensive way to teach those rights which consists preferably in a memoristic methodology. Then, formative research is examined describing its main features and its connection with student-centered paradigm of education. Afterwards, the results of a perception study about the use of formative research in the learning process of human rights in Law students of La Frontera University are analyzed. Finally, as a conclusion some reflections about the strengths and challenges of this methodological strategy are made.
Estefanía Esparza Reyes, Universidad de la Frontera
Estefanía Esparza-Reyes is an attorney with a PhD in Constitutional Law. She is also a professor of Constitutional Law; Political and Constitutional Theory; and Antidiscrimination Law. She is also an academic at the Department of Legal Sciences of the Universidad de La Frontera, located in Temuco, Chile. Finally, she is a member of the Center for Research on International Challenges (CIDI).
E-mail: estefania.esparza@ufrontera.cl
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3374-2660
Soledad Morales-Trapp, Universidad de la Frontera
Soledad Morales-Trapp es abogada, magíster en Ciencias Sociales Aplicadas y estudiante de doctorado en Estado de Derecho y Gobernanza. Además, es profesora de Derecho Procesal y académica de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de La Frontera, ubicada en Temuco, Chile. Su correo electrónico es soledad.morales@ufrontera.cl. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9648-8316
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Esparza Reyes, E., & Morales-Trapp, S. (2021). Formative research as a methodological strategy of human rights: From theory to practical experience. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 8(1), pp. 241–262. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.57078