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Entre el uno y el cero. El rol del docente y el estudiante en la investigación-acción en informática educativa en Colombia
This article presents the role and place of teacher and student in the contemporary interest in educational computing research, plus the massive inclusion of information technology and communication in a school context.
From an approach to implementation and development of information technologies and communication in educational contexts as a contemporary phenomenon raises the idea of a research methodology that it’s going to be called AREC or action research in educational computing as an alternative of educational action research (EAR), since it differences and highlights the role of teacher and student.
It rests on the EAR that the teacher is responsible for changing his/her practice. However, the classroom teaching act is not an individual act, it’s by nature collective. That is, the teacher is not only the actor in this scenario, so are the students and it is argued in the EAR that this method is oriented towards the changing conditions of social reality from the participation of actors involved in the phenomenon. In this regard it is worth asking, What would be the students' research role in transformation of the educational social phenomenon of which are part of? Should Educational action research invite only the teachers to participate in the process of knowledge construction and transformation of the educational reality?
