The Canterville Ghost - Normal School

COLOMBIA

The future of the Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja translates into an historical overview and in turn is reflected in a critical educational tradition, as evidenced by the different milestones of institutional development.

BACKGROUND OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL

The Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja, before Normal School National Boys of Tunja, was created as Act 2, 1870. Became the first Rector Dr. Ernesto Hotschik who compliance, along with eight teachers high level of preparedness, the First Mission of Germany contracted to advise and organize technical colleges in the country in the respective capitals of the state.

The Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja began its work on September 22, 1872 in the former Casa de la Torre, now headquarters of the Governorate of Boyaca, with eight students scholarship by the National Government. On October 31, 1873 graduated from the Normal School graduate's first teacher, Demetrio Cifuentes, the method pestalozziano which was then governed as a pedagogical approach of the nascent schools, based on Naturalism.

The Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja, was identified at its inception by a philosophy of education, framed by the Educational Nationalism the sixties, the second half of the nineteenth century, which proposes a philosophy Education based on the love the country , Universal humanist sense, a sense of tolerance, sobriety, frugality, purity, moderation, temperance and, in general, the virtues that are the ornament of a free and democratic society.

In 1925 adopted the pedagogical model "New School"; framed within the active pedagogy, pedagogical current boom in Europe to build an education more in tune with the child psychology and the requirements of modern life.

Some of these educational ideas emerged a group of outstanding teachers from various countries in Europe and America (Dewey, Piaget, Claparède, Freinet, etc.). And of course Colombians as: Thomas Cadavid Restrepo, Rafael Bernal Jimenez; distinguished jurist and humanist boyacense, acendrado with nationalistic fervor and Agustin Caballero Nieto who invited the Boyaca Ovidio Decroly educator who was in Colombia to expose the foundations on Education and New methods of Teaching Active. Rafael Bernal Jimenez took the ideas and said decrolianas a real change in the orientation of the schools in the department, together with the management of the educator Julius Sieber, who assumed the leadership in 1926.

At this stage, there was a restructuring of the curriculum, pointing to the specialization of teachers in key scientific disciplines as a guarantee for better teacher training. It was organized at the Ecole Normale a "Supplemental Specialization Course," which is regarded as the very origin of the first Faculty of Education, which was founded in the country, and at the same time, the foundation of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. This scope was made in the year 1893. In this process, then the Ecole Normale National Men becomes the manager of the Alma Mater, then later by decree 857 of April 21, 1934, was created in Bogota the faculty of Education Sciences for women which depended on the National Institute , And Tunja in the Faculty of Education Sciences for men.

The government decided to merge the two branches to operate attached to the National University, but were prompted the protest movement in Tunja, pressure that led to avoid the transfer and, in fact, be consolidated and officially Pedagogical University of Technology in Colombia Technology character from the sixties.

In the direction of the Normal also participated by the time the principals Enrique Alvarez Bonilla, Benjamin Natesan, Luis Alejandro Marquez, Domingo Leal, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Luis A. A. Mariño, Sunday A. Combariza, Leonidas Cely, Luis Alberto Castellanos, Rafael Mesa O. German Pulido, Aristides Zamudio and Jose Vicente Rodriguez.

Since then, the Normal School was as attached to the University. In 1975 disassociating itself from it in terms of fiscal and academic development but their teaching practice is maintained closely related to the Alma Mater. At this time, as part of the restructuring, the Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja has an agreement with the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

In 1953 created the daytime section Baccalaureate Scholar "Miguel Jimenez Lopez" and in 1972 the Night, for purposes of experimentation and teaching practice of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

At all times, according to the requirements and educational needs, then the Normal School National Boys has been highlighted by the teacher and the interior renovation of its administrative and academic changes have emerged, adaptations and changes required by the Ministry of National Education, for the quality of education, the projection to the community, extending cultural locally, regionally and nationally, with a view to ensuring the education of learners in levels of Preschool, Basic and Academic.

It also brought the functions steering for half of the twentieth century educators Mordecai Santamaria and Eduardo Barajas Coronado.

He is currently rector of the Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja the Second Priest Conde Rosendo Barrera. Since 1988, replaces Tomas Arias Avila, administers and leads the institution in recent years the implementation of the IEP, in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act 3012 and the Decree of 1997, while leading the restructuring plan the Ecole Normale Superieure Santiago de Tunja. Incidentally, in the year 1999 was achieved with the Model Upon Accreditation: Training in the Context of Teaching and Hermeneutics at the moment is to work towards the Accreditation of Quality and Development.

Since the Act 115 of 1994 and the enactment of Decree 3012 of 1997, the Normal School began the process of reflection on the specific role of the formation of Normale Superieure. . In this process highlights the following facts:

The development of a project to train the teachers from kindergarten to eleventh grade, with emphasis on Integrity and the Training for Life, a project that was not endorsed by the Academic Council, due to demand from students for the Bachelor Scholar and a decrease of the same for the Bachelor of Education.

The promulgation of Decree 3012 of 1997 required the time of the Schools for the formation of the Normale Superieure, and therefore the integration of the entire educational community at the Student training program Normale Superieure and the establishment of the Inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.

Faced with the requirement of the Ministry of National Education to submit a proposal for achieving the restructuring, a group of teachers led the project with eclectic approach, in which it was intended to take on the various trends and pedagogical models exist for Pedagogical implement them in practice Institutional. This project was questioned by the Ministry of National Education, and in the first instance, was denied accreditation Prior to the institution.

Taking advantage of the training that the Ministry of Education promoted in terms of restructuring of Normal, the Rector and faculty leaders resignificaron the proposal under the model: "Teaching Hermeneutics", a proposal which deserved the Accreditation After, through resolution 2044 of September 3 1999.

Once Upon the accreditation, a process of community awareness in front of the normal commitment to assume responsibility with the task of improving the institution in different ways, including the suggestions given by the National Council for Accreditation of Higher Normal School, CAENS .

Since the end of 1999, established the culture of Institutional Self and the development of an Improvement Plan in areas such as: Awareness, communication, Institutional Resources, Teachers' Collective, Community Design, Production Teaching, Education Projects, qualified staff, Curriculum, educational environment, Farm School, Handbook of Coexistence, School Parent, Research and Focus.

In 2001, appointed by the promoter of Projects, who guided the process of Institutional Self, taking into account the factors and related delivery of quality, where he saw the strengths, successes of the model "Teaching Hermeneutics" and progress towards EU Improving Educational Quality.