Teaching and Learning Generously

Social Educational Practices of Future Teachers in Labour Relations on the Links Between Democracy and Labour Rights

Abstract

In this work we socialize the implementation of an educational project that aims to
develop “a generous teaching and learning device” in and for future teachers, while
tending to strengthen the educational proposals of the Secondary Level Education
Centers of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (CENS) with orientation in
Labor Relations / Occupational Safety and Hygiene. of the City of Buenos Aires. The
proposal we presented was developed within the framework of different calls of the
UBANEX Project and a UBACyT PDE. In its design and development, emphasis was
placed on the incorporation of various mediations and different interventions were
carried out to think about the social in a reflexive way, recognizing possible paths in the
face of the current reality. The strictly formative purposes of this device try to assume
the sociocultural and civilizational complexity of the current context, of the different
actors involved, of the different inhabited spaces, of the deepening and curricular
updating of the specific theme of these CENS, of the diversity of educational and labor
trajectories.
One of the fundamental methodological strategies is the elaboration of co-created
workshops between teachers and students, which constitutes a novel way of teaching
the social that we develop within the framework of our subject, and in which we
propose with special focus the teaching and learning generously. We understand
“generosity” as a quality that refers to abundance, and at the same time as an attempt
to promote, a practice focused on giving or sharing with others, without expecting or
receiving anything in return. Likewise, this proposal also crosses the treatment of the
importance of democratic life in all its scopes.