La escuela y su rol como agente de cambio: experiencias vividas por estudiantes en torno a la promoción de la justicia social y ambiental desde la implementación del modelo Chango en instituciones educativas de las provincias de Manabí y Santa Elena en el periodo 2019 - 2022

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out in the educational centers Ernesto Velásquez Kuffó located in Ayampe and Gabriela Mistral located in Curía, with the purpose of knowing the changes and school improvements that initiate social and environmental justice, through the implementation of the pedagogical model ChanGo with its contributions to social and environmental transformation in students of Basic Elementary and Higher Education. The thesis includes a descriptive analysis of the handling of the ChanGo model around the promotion of the significant experiences of children. For this, qualitative research techniques were applied that assume the methodological challenges involved in studying childhood, through complementary and combined methods from disciplines such as sociology and psychology for the observation and construction of stories, that allow addressing the study of childhood. The investigation determined that the good practices of the model can be applied in more fiscal educational centers, only if there are good relations with the community and its detailed information on the program, so that the field study indicators are broken down in the theoretical framework. Obtained a restructuring in application processes, focused on improving the quality of the service with good practice was proposed, finally recommendations were made based on the data extracted from the significant experiences of the students and the methods that were being implemented in the schools to benefit communities.