Didactic Strategies for Utilizing the Gesell Chamber

Abstract

This bibliographic review, covering the period from 2009 to 2024, provides a brief overview of the origin and characteristics of the Gesell Chamber, along with its educational benefits. It draws on experiences, research, and documentation from Costa Rica and Latin America, aiming to contextualize and encourage the faculty of the University of Costa Rica’s School of Education to use this tool for teaching, research, and social outreach. The review follows a qualitative approach, describing and characterizing the didactic applications of the Gesell Chamber within the field of Educational Sciences. The study concludes by analyzing the mission, vision, and objectives of each school within the Faculty of Education at the University of Costa Rica, advocating for the integration of the Gesell Chamber as part of their educational methodology aligned with specific curricula. Additionally, didactic recommendations are provided for each school, aiming to inspire the use of the Gesell Chamber in developing strategies specific to each discipline, including in situ learning spaces, information collection, creative expression, modeling, analysis, assessment, and evaluation of individuals in various developmental stages or special conditions, whether individually, in groups, or within familial contexts. The main finding indicates that the Gesell Chamber is an effective didactic strategy, facilitating human interaction, problematization of social relations, critical and situational analysis, and promoting training, academic activities, dissemination of pedagogical processes, research, and social outreach.