The integration of research and university extension: the teaching of urban sociology and learning based on challenges

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the results of challenge-based learning. These reflections are made within the framework of the urban sociology course taught at the National Autonomous University of Honduras. Urban sociology requires an educational praxis as a subject where the student is linked to the reality of cities. Challenge-based learning proposes as a methodology that the student immerses himself in the research process, but at the same time promotes the student to propose collaboratively the search for solutions to problems that affect communities. Therefore, it becomes a teaching methodology that integrates training, research and university extension. In such a way that the student is the subject and center of the educational action.