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El agua tiene una gran importancia e influencia en nuestras vidas y en nuestro planeta. En este trabajo se presenta una investigación sobre el conocimiento sobre el ciclo del agua en el segundo ciclo de la Educación Primaria. Para el estudio, se ha realizado en dos centros de Primaria un cuestionario sobre lluvia que recoge los conceptos claves para una comprensión básica del mecanismo de la lluvia como del ciclo del agua, junto con un dibujo sobre la lluvia. La investigación pone de manifiesto que el grado de conocimiento sobre el ciclo del agua de los estudiantes es alto, pero se trata de un conocimiento incompleto y, en algunas ocasiones, erróneo. Después de reflexionar sobre los resultados obtenidos, se propone la implicación educativa necesaria para mejorar dichos resultados.

Se analizan los tipos de actividades libres y dirigidas que diseñan los futuros docentes de Infantil (FDI) para rincones de trabajo sobre ciencia, así como sus preferencias al implementarlas en el aula. Se presenta el proceso instructivo llevado a cabo con los FDI, el instrumento de recogida de datos y la categorización de las actividades diseñadas. Los FDI encontraron algo más de dificultad en diseñar actividades libres que dirigidas, y, tras su implementación en el aula, la preferencia de los FDI por cada tipo se dio en proporciones equilibradas. Por otro lado, es destacable la amplia variedad de tipos de actividades dirigidas diseñadas, eludiendo las tradicionales en las que el escolar solo memoriza o no tiene una participación activa.

Este artículo aborda el cambio epistemológico que hoy en día hoy se observa en el contexto de la investigación y educación científica superior agropecuaria de Cuba. Significa que en este contexto se va abriendo paso una nueva visión del conocimiento científico, su ontología, gnoseología, lógica, y método, su relación con la tecnología y el conocimiento de los campesinos, así como sus condicionamientos e impactos sociales y ambientales. Este cambio de paradigma epistemológico guarda relación con la necesidad del desarrollo sostenible de la agricultura como alternativa al modelo convencional de desarrollo agropecuario centrado en el monocultivo, la dependencia de altos insumos industriales importados y la practica de extensionismo agrario vertical-burocrático de las instituciones de producción de conocimientos científicos. El estudio contempló revisión bibliográfica-documental y sistematización de la experiencia docente e investigativa de los autores en el campo de la filosofía, la epistemología y la metodología de la investigación en educación.

Este trabajo describe el desarrollo de diversas actividades prácticas de microscopía en las aulas como instrumentos de motivación para el estudio de las Ciencias Naturales y la Biología; todo ello con el objetivo final de mejorar la formación científica de los estudiantes de educación primaria y secundaria. Las actividades han sido elaboradas por el equipo del Programa de Extensión Um mundo através das lentes, con la colaboración de los profesores de dicho ciclo educativo y de acuerdo con los objetivos científicos y didácticos previamente planteados. Las actividades se llevaron a cabo entre alumnos de escuelas públicas de primaria (ensino fundamental) y secundaria (ensino médio) en los laboratorios del Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brasil), como complemento de las clases teóricas. Una vez realizadas estas actividades, hemos encuestado a los participantes mediante un cuestionario en el que las evalúan y donde recogen sus impresiones con respecto a cómo éstas mejoran su aprendizaje. El análisis de los resultados muestra que los alumnos participantes en el proyecto tienen la oportunidad de acceder a un nivel de conocimiento práctico sobre microscopía que la escuela pública no les proporciona hasta la fecha. Además reconocen la contribución de las actividades de microscopía en su aprendizaje y formación científica. Finalmente, los resultados muestran que los alumnos participantes en el proyecto presentan una mayor motivación para el estudio durante y después de la realización de las clases prácticas. Palabras-clave: Educación científica; Enseñanza de las Ciencias; Biología; Laboratorio escolar “A World through Glasses”: the microscopy classes as a motivational strategy for the study of Sciences and Biology Abstract: This paper describes how to use microscopes in the classroom as motivational instruments in the study of Natural Science and Biology, thereby improving primary and secondary science education. The activities were undertaken by the Um mundo atraves das lentes Extension Program team with the collaboration of the primary and secondary teachers, pursuant to previously established scientific and teaching goals. The activities were engaged by students from public elementary and high school at the Instituto Federal de Educacao Ciencia e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) laboratories, supplementing theoretical class components. After the students participated in the practical sessions, we asked the participants to respond to an evaluation questionnaire and give their impressions on how their learning was enhanced. The results of the survey show that the students who participated in the project were able to obtain practical knowledge on microscopy that the public school has not offered them to date. Students also acknowledged that the microscopy activities provided them with hands-on scientific knowledge. Finally, survey results show that the students who participated in the project became more motivated in their studies both during and after the practical sessions. Keywords: Science Education; Teaching of Science; Biology; School Laboratory "Um mundo através das lentes": as aulas de microscopia como estratégia de motivação para o estudo das Ciências e da Biologia Resumo: Este artigo descreve o desenvolvimento de atividades práticas de microscopia como instrumentos de motivação para o estudo das Ciências Naturais e Biologia, com o objetivo final de melhorar a educação científica dos alunos do ensino fundamental e médio. As atividades foram elaboradas pela equipe do programa de extensão Um Mundo através das Lentes, com a colaboração dos professores da educação básica e de acordo com os objetivos científicos e didáticos propostos. As atividades são realizadas por alunos das escolas públicas de ensino fundamental e de ensino médio nos laboratórios do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil), como complemento às aulas teóricas. Uma vez que essas atividades tenham sido realizadas, os alunos participantes avaliam as atividades por meio de um questionário no qual coletam suas impressões sobre a contribuição das atividades para a melhoria de seu aprendizado. A análise dos resultados mostra que os alunos participantes do projeto têm a oportunidade de acessar um nível de conhecimento prático sobre microscopia que a escola pública não fornece até o momento. Eles também reconhecem a contribuição das atividades de microscopia em sua aprendizagem e formação científica. Por fim, os resultados da pesquisa mostram que os alunos participantes do projeto têm maior motivação para estudar durante e após a realização das aulas práticas. Palabras-clave: Educação científica; Ensino de Ciências; Biologia; Laboratório escolar

El presente trabajo es una reflexión que intenta contribuir a la discusión en torno a la formación en investigación de los profesionales de la Salud, tomando en cuenta dos conceptos: la alfabetización científica y la salud global. Ambos se vinculan a partir de la reflexividad, habilidad necesaria para la formación en investigación de los futuros profesionales de la Salud. De esta manera, el objetivo es: Proponer la alfabetización científica para la formación en investigación de profesionales de la Salud, en el contexto de los desafíos de la salud global. Para esto se cuestiona la formación basada en la enseñanza del método científico o de métodos cualitativos, argumentando el riesgo de tecnificar la investigación. Se valora, a su vez, la contribución de los métodos cualitativos para la formación de los profesionales de la Salud.

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This study analyzes the perception of 4456 high school students from the state of Chihuahua (Mexico), in relation to their preferences (understood as personal interest) and willingness (the desire to continue participating) towards scientific-technological innovation. The objective is determining the feasibility of generating extracurricular academic training environments (science clubs). The information was collected using a questionnaire and the data allowed the identification of the following moments in the study subjects: 1) previous experiences of scientific application and self-concept about creativity and creative people; 2) current interests in scientific-technological innovation; 3) knowledge and skills; and 4) provision of active participation in scientific environments. The results show that, when the four moments are analyzed as a method, only minor populations indicate constancy in taste and willingness to get involved in academic events related to innovation, which justifies the feasibility of opening promotional spaces for the science; On the other hand, a large population offers results of disinterest and lack of willingness to participate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metacognition is a field with a recent development and a growing importance in the research in didactics of the natural sciences. Many authors agree on their value for understanding the contents, as well as for the development of learning strategies and critical thinking in students. However, these investigations have had little impact in the classrooms. This is due to multiple causes, including the absence of specific proposals to encourage the development of metacognitive skills in students. The objective of this article is to offer criteria for classifying activities that promote metacognition in the classroom. We will present some types of activities with examples that have been put into play in the doctoral thesis of the first of the authors, and we will also provide a specific example on the teaching of evolutionary biology that allows thinking about the approach to epistemological obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two experiments compared closely related interventions to teach the control of variables strategy (CVS) to fourth-grade students. Over the two experiments, an intervention first developed by Chen and Klahr (1999) was most effective at helping students learn how to design and evaluate single-factor experiments. In Experiment 1, attempts to reduce the cognitive load imposed by Chen and Klahr's basic teaching intervention actually produced poorer learning and transfer of CVS. In Experiment 2, attempts to simplify Chen and Klahr's algorithm for teaching students how to set up a valid experimental design also produced poorer learning and transfer of CVS. Both experiments illustrate that oversimplifying a domain or the logic behind controlling variables can undermine the effectiveness of an intervention designed to teach CVS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently there is a wide range of digital tools that can be used in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education (the STEM disciplines) during primary and secondary school. Based on the definitions proposed by international consensus frameworks, we aim to discuss the relationship STEM education and digital tools, focusing on how an adequate symbiosis between both can contribute both to improve the scientific, mathematical and technological students' competences, and to improve their digital skills, necessary for their personal and professional development in the digital era. We intend to provide a perspective to the use of digital tools in school, going beyong fashions, and discussing why and how to use each of these tools. More especifically, we propose which opportunities offers the digital-based instruction for STEM learning, and at the same time which opportunities offers the STEM instruction for digital learning. With this researchbased discussion, we aim to overcome the debate "digital tools yes or not", but "how and why" to use these tools in school.

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This work aims to understand the processes that take place during scientific education of students with visual impairments at the middle school level, with the objective of identifying what is needed for an inclusive science education to be achieved. Although scientific and technological education is considered essential for making informed decisions in everyday life, there is no documentation in the Mexican context that reports how science education takes place for students with disabilities. This analysis, carried out within the qualitative tradition, seeks to give voice to the actors who participate in the process: Students, teachers, administrators and teachers of teacher development programs. Data shows that inclusive science education for students with visual impairment is a multifactorial and complex process that holds challenges in the curriculum implementation, teacher preparation, teacher's work conditions, and even participation of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work presented here proposes a theoretical and historical reflection of the socio-scientific controversies posed as problematizing situations that have become an effective tool in the teaching of sciences, since they allow the development of argumentative processes, the development of thought critical, conceptions more in line with science and scientific activity and allows use of history and philosophy. In this sense, readers will find a brief historical account of the origin of socio-scientific controversies and a proposal to work on Education in Renewable Energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Desde la didáctica de la ciencia (DC) se reflexiona sobre la gran expansión experimentada por esta didáctica específica en los últimos años, a expensas de su creciente interdisciplinariedad. La expansión ha supuesto la incorporación de múltiples conceptos nómadas (tesis de la emigración conceptual) que han ampliado la matriz disciplinar tradicional hacia una matriz más interdisciplinar. Los datos de congresos punteros de la DC permiten constatar empíricamente la tesis de la emigración conceptual, principalmente, desde la psicología y pedagogía. La investigación en DC debería reconocer la investigación original en esas áreas como fuentes primarias para DC, pero dos sesgos muy extendidos en la investigación operan en su contra: la preferencia por la auto-citación endogámica y el olvido de las fuentes originales. Como ejemplo paradigmático se plantea el meta-análisis de Hattie sobre el aprendizaje visible, que clasifica numerosas variables psicológicas y pedagógicas según su impacto sobre el aprendizaje (tesis de la fundamentación interdisciplinar). Se concluye que las nuevas disciplinas nodrizas de la DC (psicología y pedagogía) deben reconocerse como fundamentos ineludibles para la investigación y formación del profesorado en DC; para ello, la DC debe asumir su interdisciplinariedad, corregir la endogamia auto-referencial y fundamentar los conceptos interdisciplinares en las fuentes primarias originales (psicológicas o pedagógicas), para eliminar el riesgo de “reinventar la rueda” o deformar los nuevos conceptos en la DC y promover una investigación en DC más coherente con las fuentes primarias y mejor en calidad y cantidad.

En este trabajo analizamos las contribuciones de los procesos educativos de los movimientos sociales a la educación científica, ambiental y en salud, considerando que los mismos permitirían pensar soluciones distintas y distantes de la racionalidad e institucionalidad actuales. Específicamente, presentamos el análisis de una experiencia educativa de formación en promoción de la salud sostenida por el Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero-Vía Campesina de Argentina. Como continuación de un proceso de reflexión sobre la práctica realizado durante su desarrollo, analizamos la experiencia desde un marco teórico-epistemológico específico: las epistemologías del sur. Caracterizamos las lógicas que darían cuenta de una racionalidad cosmopolita como fundamento del proceso educativo. Asimismo, identificamos elementos y prácticas constitutivas de este tipo de racionalidad.

Industrialization was a kingpin in Japan’s fast transition from an isolationist country to a great power, beginning in the last decades of the nineteenth century. As industrialization demands a technical know-how, and self-sufficiency was a main point in Japan’s development goals, basic scientific higher education, especially in physics, played an important role in its nation building project. Relying on secondary sources, the present article shows how Japan proceeded from a stage of policy experimentation and foreign assistance to a stage of effective organization and independence as a country, in a system where educational, governmental and military institutions worked closely.

Aquest treball es planteja estudiar el paper de la Química Verda a l'educació científica per contribuir, des d'aquest camp, a la Ciència de la Sostenibilitat i, per tant, a la transició cap a societats sostenibles. Es mostraran uns primers resultats d'una recerca duta a terme sobre l'atenció que l'ensenyament secundari i la pròpia recerca en el camp de la didàctica de les ciències estan prestant a les aportacions de la Química Verda, i la possibilitat de la seva incorporació en la formació de la ciutadania i l'adopció de mesures necessàries per contribuir a la construcció d'un futur sostenible. Es pretén així respondre a les nombroses crides perquè l'educació, tota l'educació i molt en particular l'ensenyament de les ciències, pari esment als problemes i desafiaments que afecten a la humanitat, contribuint a la cerca de solucions i a la formació d'una ciutadania responsable i preparada per a la presa de decisions.

El propòsit d'aquest estudi és presentar l'impacte d'una intervenció usant qüestions sociocientíficas per desenvolupar el pensament crític en estudiants universitaris. Es va fer un estudi quasiexperimental pretest-postest amb 56 estudiants durant 16 setmanes. La informació del pretest i postest va ser valorada des d'una anàlisi qualitativa i quantitatiu del contingut, que permet comparar el tipus de respostes dels participants una vegada finalitzada la intervenció. L'anàlisi indica que els estudiants emeten arguments més fonamentats en relació amb valorar aspectes socials de la ciència, qüestionen la informació a partir de comparació de diverses fonts i fan reflexions com a futurs docents de ciències naturals.

La investigación pretendió explorar las representaciones sociales que se realizan del quehacer científico en los textos del estudiante para la asignatura de ciencias naturales, utilizados en enseñanza básica en escuelas sostenidas con fondos públicos de Chile, por medio de los conceptos de Ciencia en acción y Ciencia elaborada desarrollados por B. Latour. Los textos analizados corresponden a los entregados y distribuidos de manera gratuita por el Ministerio de Educación a estudiantes de primaria. Se ha podido evidenciar que las prácticas presentadas varían por curso y por unidad; éstas tienden a reproducir representaciones asociadas a una ciencia elaborada, ya que se presentan prácticas propias de una ciencia absoluta, con saberes imposibles de ser modificados y muchas veces carecen de contexto y de historia. Los estudiantes deben corroborar saberes previamente establecidos, por lo tanto, se transmite que la ciencia es meramente comprobatoria y no explicativa. Recibido: 07 de mayo de 2018 Aceptado: 15 de diciembre de 2018

An educational model of the H igh S chool conceives the formation of a scientific culture in the s tudents in order to project committed attitudes with an ambi a nce of environmental sustainability. The present article suggests learni n g situations for an environmental - scien tific education that integrate s the curricul ar and context ́s matter in the pedagogical proces s from a fo r mative approach that recogni zes the environmental thinking of José Martí. In the subjet geography , Martí ́s environmental approach is shown, where we ca n remark the theat me nt of the fomative elements such as love and ethic - a esthetic vision of nature, a complex and holistic point of view, as well as a recognition of an environmental identity as a part of the latin american contex.

Knowledge plays a vital role as the key to long-term economic development, at both the national and regional levels. Furthermore, the new circumstances require the exercise of mature citizenship at an intellectual level and responsible citizenship in the political sphere. By its very nature, science education can make a decisive contribution towards achieving the two goals of economic development and civic progress. From this dual perspective, this work analyses the data from PISA 2015. Its aim is to provide an empirical analysis of the relative positions of the 17 Spanish autonomous communities in terms of science education. It focuses on three main variables and how they are related: students' performance in science, their epistemic conceptions, and their STEM vocations. A number of recommendations for improvement policies and practices relating to this evidence are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Science Fair is a remarkable event in the student's life and an attractive space for science communication, but it is also a powerful promoter of autonomous scientific and technological research activities. Integrates and encourages students, teachers and families, leading to a science education where appropriation of knowledge occurs through scientific research in searching solutions to everyday problems or of more general interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A discussion present in the academic and business environments is the low capacity of innovation and technological development coming from the Brazilian academic environments, not only in higher education institutions, but also in technological education institutions. The aim of this article is to discuss specific programs of scientific education, executed through institutional partnerships signed by the Amazonas State Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM) for planned intervention in order to achieve the best professional qualification of graduates of all educational levels, in search of the solution of the problems already identified and widely debated about the quality of the graduate of higher degrees, as well as the improvement of actions directed to the sustainable development of Amazonas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new technologies have penetrated deeply into Education. We have analyzed the perception of students and teachers on the use of tablets as teaching sciences tools, in a Secondary and High School where each student is provided with an iPad. Both students and teachers consider that the highest performance of the iPad is achieved in subjects related to life sciences. However, most teachers recognize that they do not take advantage of all the iPad resources. We discuss why technology does not guarantee an improvement in the quality of scientific education without an adequate training of teachers and some didactic strategies to implement its suitable use in the classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current time is marked by the rapid and growing development of the science and the technology, with the result that it constitutes a priority that the Physics in the high school contributes to the scientific culture. The observation to classes, the application of interviews and surveys and the analysis of documents, allowed to verify that inadequacies exist in the work of the professors and that the tasks solved in classes and those presented in the texts, mostly approach equations. In the studentsis perceived lack of motivation, rejection towards the study of sciences and having law results. Such a situation led to propose activities for the learning of Physics that contribute to elevate the scientific culture of the students of the high school, favoring in this way its civic formation for a better insert in the society. The factors to keep in mind for their elaboration constitute the scientific novelty of the proposal that it was validated with the application of a pedagogic pre-experiment. With the use of the descriptive statistic and inferential the results of the pedagogic tests were tabulated carried out at the beginning and at the end, checking that there was a significant improvement in the results of the students, which allows to assure that their scientific culture was elevated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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