Storytelling in the teaching-learning process in the area of social studies, Educational Unit “Dr. Carlos Rufino Marin”

Abstract

Introduction: Digital Storytelling has become a new narrative art present in the cultural and educational fields, capable of integrating multi-format resources to conceptualize information, based on a hypermedia language. The educational system in Ecuador has experienced several important changes due to the pandemic, the teaching-learning method had to be reformed, one of the main problems for students is that they do not carry out their activities. The objective is to analyze the use of Storytelling and contribute to learning, allowing pedagogical activities to be dynamic so that students understand the content in an effective way since the stories and images can be captured and received in a concrete and meaningful way. Materials and methods: For the development of the research work, a survey was conducted among students of the "Dr. Carlos Rufino Marín" Educational Unit and it was possible to determine the influence of the use of Storytelling or Storytelling as a teaching technique in the application of activities to develop reading comprehension in the different topics of the subject of Social Studies. Results: The descriptive analysis of the results showed an average academic performance level of 8.10 among elementary school students at the "Dr. Carlos Rufino Marín" Educational Unit in Social Studies, achieved over the last four years, reflecting weaknesses in this subject. Discussion: A plan of didactic activities was developed for the application of storytelling aimed at students to improve teaching and learning, involving the meaningful assimilation of historical, social, and cultural processes. Conclusions: It was concluded that one of the factors influencing performance is the current teaching methodology. Through questionnaires administered to both students and teachers, it was found that few students applied narrative techniques, while others did not.