Connectivism as a Pedagogical Approach and the Teaching of Historical Social Sciences

Abstract

The research seeks to determine the correlation that exists between the variables: Connectivism as a Pedagogical approach and the Teaching of Historical Social Sciences at the Faculty of Education, Federico Villarreal National University, 2020. The working hypothesis was Connectivism as a Pedagogical approach is related to the Teaching of the Historical Social Sciences. The research approach was quantitative, correlational level, non-experimental cross-sectional design. The collection instrument was a questionnaire applied to 74 students of the History of Social Sciences specialty. Pearson's correlation test was used. The results indicate that the variables have a correlation of 0.601 with 95% confidence at 0.05 of significance, then it is determined that there is a high correlation between them. In conclusion, it can be stated that Connectivism as a Pedagogical approach maintains a high correlation with the Teaching of Historical Social Sciences at the Faculty of the National University Federico Villarreal.