Mediation as a fundamental principle of current training higher education students

Abstract

Mediation has been considered as an element which enables the integral formation; nevertheless, this element has become an immanent principle in the work of Higher Education’s Teachers. Without this principle, the objectives in the integral formation of future professionals could not be achieved. Considering the foregoing, this paper aims to show that education needs to be rethought and adapted to social, economic and political changes that globalization has produced in society. In this way, the concept of mediation is necessary to ensure that agents involved in this process, realize that is not enough to apply the traditional principles of pedagogy, but that these principles should be assessed and considered within the environment of mediation process, in which the teacher leaves aside the authoritarian role in the classroom class and becomes a guide and facilitator of learning experiences for students. Each chapter here, sought to make evident the evolution that has been education and how it adapts to social trends in which students perform, it is important to make clear that mediation stems from the need to modify the pedagogical principles and adapt to a globalized society in which professionals must be essential for the evolution and development of it.

KEY WORDS: Mediation, university comprehensive training, educational strategies, mediator, teacher.