
Clío. Revista de Historia, Ciencias Humanas y Pensamiento Crítico
ISSN: 2660-9037 / Provincia de Pontevedra - España
Maldonado Muñoz, Griseth
Barboza, Jorge-Luis
Despertando el pensamiento crítico:
autorregulación lectora y transformación
pedagógica en primaria
Año 5, No. 10, julio-diciembre, 2025
intervención pedagógica sistemática y reflexiva es efectiva para fomentar la
lectura crítica y la autorregulación, destacando que estos no son procesos
espontáneos, sino que requieren una mediación pedagógica sostenida y la
necesidad de una transformación en las prácticas docentes para su cultivo
efectivo.
Palabras clave: lectura crítica, autorregulación, pensamiento crítico,
investigación-acción.
Awakening critical thinking: reading self-regulation and pedagogical
transformation in elementary school
Abstract
This article aimed to analyze the contribution of reading self-regulation to the
development of critical thinking skills in elementary school students in Soledad,
Atlántico (Colombia). Through a qualitative approach and an action-research
design, 20 critical reading and self-regulation workshops were implemented with
29 fourth-grade students, using techniques such as interviews, participant
observation, and field journals. The results showed progressive improvement in
the participants' reading, self-regulatory, and critical skills. Initially, they
demonstrated an incipient mastery of comprehension and teacher dependence,
but they evolved towards the conscious use of metacognitive mechanisms,
becoming active subjects who question and analyze. In the final phase, they
significantly strengthened critical and intertextual reading, the identification of
central messages, the analysis of consequences, and a greater capacity for self-
regulation and knowledge transfer. It is concluded that systematic and reflective
pedagogical intervention is effective in promoting critical reading and self-
regulation, highlighting that these are not spontaneous processes but require
sustained pedagogical mediation and the need for a transformation in teaching
practices for their effective cultivation.
Keywords: critical reading, self-regulation, critical thinking, action research.