MOTIVATION, RURAL CONTEXTS, AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: REFLECTIONS TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL WORK IN BASIC SECONDARY EDUCATION

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on important aspects of student education. The topics to be developed refer to school motivation, rural contexts, and religious education. These are elements that form part of the essence of school education at the basic secondary level, given the complicated rural contexts in Colombia. It reflects on the complexity of the rural context today, in light of traditional pedagogical and didactic approaches to teaching and learning. In this regard, there is concern about the practice of merely transmitting content without encouraging students to explain the reality of rural life. Therefore, school motivation must be encouraged to foster questioning reasoning and critical awareness when explaining rural issues, with the training of rural students in biopsychosocial aspects, by exercising interpretive understanding of rural reality through constructive and critical pedagogical work. Similarly, religious education is studied as a strategy for transmitting values and actions that deepen students' roots in the context. Methodologically, we used the fundamentals of documentary research to structure a descriptive explanation of the need to promote motivation in educational training, considering the rural reality from the training work carried out daily in classrooms, with a tendency to seek change and transformation by including religious education as a strategy for the comprehensive training of students in diversity and pluralism.