Mercedes Chaves Jaime

Mercedes Chaves Jaime 1956 - 2005

Mercedes Chaves Jaime (7 November 1956 La Uvita, Colombia - 22 August 2005 Tunja, Colombia) was a Colombian psicopedagogue, professor and educational researcher. Chaves has established himself as a notable vygotskian pedagogue in Latin America.

Work

Her work extends to early childhood education and cognitive stages for child development in read/write processes. She was early inspired by the work of the soviet psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, which was the founder of cultural-historical psychology.

Chaves was the proponent of the empty acts theory in the read children's learning processes, which argues that the relationship between teachers and students must be focused on the Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, in order to avoid negative interactions with other students, potencializing the ability to interpret, as a complex interaction between the text and the reader, the information symbols represent, and to be able to re-create those same symbols so that others students can derive the same meaning.

Education and career

Mercedes Chaves attended the National Pedagogic and Technological University of Colombia in Tunja, studying early childhood education and getting a degree in Bachelor of Education. In 1993 Chaves founded the Lev Vygotsky research center and private school, located in Tunja. In 1993 she went on Bogotá to finish her studies in Education at the Pontifical Xavierian University, receiving with honours the degree in Master of Arts in Education. From 1994 to 2004, Chaves was an academic in the field of child psychopedagogy, teaching at National Pedagogic and Technological University of Colombia, and also worked as advisor with international organizations.

See also

• Creative Pedagogy
• Educational psychology
• Learning theory (education)
• Zone of Proximal Development

References

• A pedagogical model to learn - ES
• Chaves M. Approach to Biography

Persondata
Name	Chaves Jaime, Mercedes
Alternative names
Short description	Colombian pedagogue
Date of birth	1956-11-07
Place of birth	La Uvita, Colombia
Date of death	2005-08-22
Place of death	Tunja, Colombia