Pedagogy and teacher training in the 21st century Pedagogía y formación de docentes en el siglo XXI

Abstract

Culture comes from the Latin term 'cultus', which designates the action of cultivating the earth and, in a figurative sense, the action of cultivating the spirit. The ethnologists Malinowsky and Mead defined culture as the set of representations and behaviors acquired by humans as social beings. Regarding the scenarios of culture, Ricardo Nassiff points out that culture ranges from the work of the craftsman to the highest aesthetic creation, from technology to science, from the basic forms of the community to the most complex of the political organization or economic, fruit of the tendency of the human being to express their desires or their most intimate conceptions (Nassiff, 1984).