MEANINGS ABOUT EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION PROFESSORS
Educational quality, meanings, pedagogical practices, higher education.
This research addresses the meanings of educational quality from the perspective of a group of university professors, from the Vigotskyan sociocultural approach. Here, the professor is prioritized as a research subject, understanding how the university professor in Colombia defines educational quality and analyzes it from the context of his university. Symbolic resources and other strategies used by professors in the public and private sectors are identified to face possible difficulties encountered in their pedagogical practices and to relate how the educational policies of the country and of the institution in which the professors work affect the construction of their meanings on educational quality. For this purpose, a group of professors from a public university and another group from a private one are interviewed, and additionally a focus group from each type of university. Based on the data produced in this research, elements are provided for the re-significance of educational quality, transcending the theoretical preconceptions established over time, focusing on the quality of education from the endogenous perspective, especially from the perspective of professors, dignifying their work