Critical Didactics: a pedagogic option for modern today’s university.
While Colombian university in practice broadly developed the concept of teaching for higher education, other education faculties have entered the specific teaching of some subjects such as mathematics, natural sciences, language, literature , reading and writing, among others. The discussion of the subject has been in academic areas of national and international order where it has settled on the concepts of pedagogy and didactics, in its contextualization, allow envision frames and general spectra ranging from traditional school rehearsals, passing for the new school to the present, including the latter opening pedagogies such as active and criticism. From this perspective, the dissertation we focus on the critical teaching and from the mediation of language in the alternative critical workshop as a teaching option, timely, appropriate and relevant for college today.