EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION AND LITERACIES: PEDAGOGY AND INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION AND LITERACIES: PEDAGOGY AND INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary society, dominated by inexhaustible sources of information, complex social and generational changes implies that teaching and learning are increasingly associated with these transformations, implying a new teacher profile for the 21st century. The student is increasingly immersed in technology and there is a clear need to rethink the pedagogical innovation in Higher Education, namely when we associate education, pedagogy and the different literacies that must be taken to the classroom. METHOD. In order to establish a debate on what a professor needs to improve his/her teaching and get to his/her students, we have designed a questionnaire considering the main aspects on literacies in education and presented it to two target groups, one in Portugal and one in Spain. RESULTS. The results obtained are very similar in both cases: 100% of the students agreed that contemporary society needs more specific language to code and decode information and that the analysis of this information society challenges must be carried into the classroom, although they differ sometimes in the importance of one literacy or another. DISCUSSION. With this study, we can conclude that teachers in Higher Education clearly need to enhance different contemporary skills in order to correspond to the expectations of the generation of digital natives and cope with the technological and informational changes that affect the current educational system.

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