Historical-social conditions that shaped the pedagogical thinking of Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy

Abstract

Introduction: The work of Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy has been studied in its relation with medical education, its contributions to didactics and the conceptualization of education at work as a form of organization of the teaching-learning process; However, the historical-social conditions that shaped his pedagogical thinking have not been thoroughly investigated.
Objective: To determine the influence of these historical-social conditions on the pedagogical thinking of Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy.
Material and Methods: This is a qualitative biographical research. Unpublished documents such as minutes of meetings, epistolary and sketches of articles and speeches could be accessed. Published and printed articles and books were reviewed. For the active and passive digitized bibliography published in national magazines, it was used as a Google Scholar search engine.
Development: This article outlines the following conditions: family environment, communist militancy, training under the mentorship of Dr. Pedro Iglesias Betancourt, the Cuban Revolution, the Scientific-Technical Revolution and the interrelation with his contemporaries.
Conclusions: Historical and social conditions influenced Fidel Ilizástigui Dupuy and his interest in assuming the culture of his time, his values and character, in his eagerness to change the reality of medical education he knew, supported by a process of thought and action , Contributed to the modeling of their pedagogical thinking.

Keywords: Social and historical conditions, medical education, Didactic, education at work.