Printing Press in School: Pedagogy of the Unique Subject and Collaborative Work

Abstract

The new human geography in its global and multidimensional character establishes a hyperconnected world of accelerated technological innovation. Higher education faces the challenge of operating within dissimilar cultural emergencies of those dynamics. The proposal is to reframe the human aspect as a vital axis in contrast to the economic determinism that affects the environment, cultural identity, social fabric, and the political aspect. This is a complex and at the same time permissible proposition as transformations in the students’ being, knowing, and doing are cultivated from the classroom. Based on the above, the intention is to reestablish, through the Célestin Freinet pedagogy, the original student-teacher relationship, which, by way of extrapolation, was applied in the university context as a significant learning experience involving three substantial moments: enhancing the individual’s faculties, reinventing the inclusive and expansive concept of printing as an analog gadget to the internet, and having new technologies aimed to dynamize the student’ individual and collaborative work in real life.

Translated by Adán Israel Vázquez Alba.