PERCEPTIONS OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS ON THEIR PEDAGOGICAL - ANDRAGOGICAL DIMENSIONS

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the Pedagogical - Andragogical Dimensions variables in Latin American university teaching. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2021, achieving the identification of 361 publications. The information provided by the said platform was organized through tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by employing a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 246 publications is the Latin American country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the Pedagogical - Andragogical Dimensions in Latin American university teaching was Social Sciences with 117 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the aforementioned period was the journal article, representing 86% of the total scientific production.