4. The automotive mechanics workshop-lab as a learning environment in technical high-schools

Abstract

This paper is based on a critical analysis of the specialized literature in the topic of the automotive mechanics laboratoty-workshop as a learning environment in the technical high school; it is supported by the investigative experience of the author during his career as a teacher, signed by his professional formation on the issue. As a consequence, for the teacher, an educational laboratory-workshop represents a set where the student is taught by either building or transforming the raw material into a finished work and hence obtaining the effectiveness of learning if that place presents the appropriate set and pedagogical resources offered in current legal normative. It is concluded that the learning process used in technical high school should have a pedagogical environment consistent with the acoustic elements of ventilation and temperature efficient to develop theoretical and demonstratives activities, also it would be necessary that teachers and students acknowledge the conditions in order to conform a collective consciousness about the importance of having educative sets according to didactic goals required to reach the expected learning.