Published
2009-10-15

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Vasquez Ph.D., O., & Marcello, A. (2009). Una mirada contextualizada del uso de prácticas de innovación en comunidades cultural y linguisticamente diversas: la necesidad de adaptación mutua. Revista De Investigaciones UNAD, 8(2), 13-30. https://doi.org/10.22490/25391887.633
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Una mirada contextualizada del uso de prácticas de innovación en comunidades cultural y linguisticamente diversas: la necesidad de adaptación mutua

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/25391887.633
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Artículo producto de Investigación
Olga Vasquez Ph.D.,
Angelica Marcello

This article shows the results, advances and projections from this investigation, obtained during the last years, concerning to the bilingual/bicultural after-school activity proposal, confined in a topic called The Magic Class. This pedagogical innovation, made with several communities in the San Pascal American Ethnic Group, in California, follows the Vygotzky´s theories about the game factor involved in the development and learning. Other activities such as The Wizard, the electronic entity in The Magic Class and The Cosmic Fly also support the language learning practices, especially when those involve children into the investigation.

The Magic Class is an educational innovation which responses to the histories, cultures, objectives and interests from several communities (minorities) through the use of her intellectual resources as tools for learning and development. Specifying the article describes the experience within a learning particitive learning-development focus, admitting that students who belong to minorities often have social, academic, and additional difficulties. On this purpose, the Vygotzky´s theories are considered about the game factor involved in the development and learning.