Study on teachers

THE INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF ARTS AND
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humanistic qualities and

facilitating learning in higher
education students within
the ICT
Jos Jaime Botello Valle, Ph. D.

Abstract

The result of the investigation is exposed on the

role that teachers humanist qualities play and the
utilization

of

the

Information

and

the

Communication Technologies (ICT) as a way to

stimulate learning in students of higher education in

view of the current context of exhibition and

disposition of multiple sites of self-learning on line,
and

potentially

environment.

valuable

in

the

educational

Introduction

This research starts from 1980 and culminating in

2014 taking as its primary goal to know whether the
teachers humanistic qualities such as openness,
reflexivity, self-awareness, flexibility, commitment,
self-analysis,

self-exploration

can

generate

profound changes in the learning of students from

four universities in different regions of Mexico.

 For

such reason there were combined the

qualitative and quantitative approaches
of the scientific investigation, taking in the
first one a field diary where conducts and
reactions from teacher and students were
registered; in the second one the
statistical method was applied with the
SPSS and the Excel programs to obtain the
degree of reliability so much internal, as
that of the own study.

The hypothesis that this study handled was that: THE

TEACHERS

HUMANIST

QUALITIES

WITH

FORMATION EN THE ICT PROMOTE THE LEARNING

IN UNIVESITY.

Openness
Selfinquiring

Teachers

Selfawareness
Congruence

Humanist
qualities

Reflexivity
Freedom
Flexibility

Commitment

ICT

Learning

The philosophical and pedagogic currents of

thought that sustained the present study are
contained firstly in the Husserls Phenomenology,

on the Herrns and Gonzalez humanist approach,

in the Freires Existential-humanist Pedagogy, in
Faure's Personalistic Community Pedagogy, in the
Rogerss Person Centered Pedagogy, Maslow's
Humanist Psychology, and the approaches of
Paredes and Carbajal on the ICT.

Method

A course was given on Psychology of the Mexican

from January to March, 2014, in the University Cetys of

Mexicali's city, (Mexico) by the researcher who here

describes it.

The sample was not selected at random, but it was taken

of naturalistic form from the group of pupils who took
part, of this study.

They were 14 students of different masters: Psychology,

Criminology, Human Resources and Special Education, 8

women and 6 men whose ages fluctuated between 25

and 35 years.

In this study the Independent Variable the (IV) was

conceptualized like: teachers humanist qualities and the
Dependent Variable (DV) was the fostering of the

learning.

The measurement of the DV carried out by

means of a survey with scale type Likert with 11 reagents

and 5 options of response: bad, poor, fair, good and

excellent, that were applied to the beginning and at the end

of the course.

 As

for the reliability of the instrument

Cronbach's formula was applied, and the
index that obtained by means of the
program Statistical Package for the Social
Sciences (2010) was .785

Results
The

answers obtained of the surveys

emptied in the program SPSS (2010) to get
its degree of reliability, threw an index of
Cronbach's Alpha of .727 and to compare
the answers of the first one with the
second survey the program used was
Excel with which there were obtained a
result of 8.3 with the Square Chi formula of.

(one) degree of freedom was granted to it, since

it is a table of 2X2 and one reliability of .05, that

gives 3.841, which means it is accepted the

alternative hypothesis: THE QUALITIES OF THE

HUMANIST TEACHER FORMED IN THE ICT FAVORS
THE LEARNING OF THE STUDENTS OF TOP LEVEL.

Conclusions
It

is necessary to qualify the teacher in

the Humanist Education with authentic
values that can make his labor more
significant, at the same time he must be
prepared and get up-to-date in the new
ICT applicable trends in the classroom. On
the other hand the HE facilitates the labor
of the teacher inside the classroom,
promoting the learning of the students.

 Even

the implications of this research are

related with the improvement of the
quality in the Education, not only on the
national level, but in the whole world,
because it stimulates the construction of
the own students knowledge.