Non-epistemic practices: extending the view in the didactic approach based on scientific practices

El presente articulo reivindica prestar una atencion explicita a las practicas no-epistemicas como ampliacion de aquellos planteamientos predominantes del enfoque didactico basado en practicas cientificas, que solo suelen estar focalizados en practicas epistemicas. Para ello, (1) se exponen los principales argumentos empleados en promover este enfoque didactico; (2) se analizan criticamente diferentes conceptualizaciones sobre el aprendizaje de la ciencia mediante practicas cientificas; (3) se justifica la integracion de la dimension no-epistemica en tal enfoque a partir de bibliografia sobre filosofia, sociologia e historia de la ciencia; y finalmente (4) se proponen de manera fundamentada algunas practicas no-epistemicas que podrian abordarse en la educacion cientifica basica. Palabras clave: ensenanza de la ciencia; indagacion; practicas cientificas; practicas epistemicas; practicas no-epistemicas. Non-epistemic practices: extending the view in the didactic approach based on scientific practices Abstract: This article calls for explicit attention to non-epistemic practices as an extension of the predominant approaches on practice-based to science education, which tend to emphasize mainly epistemic practices. To this end, (1) the main arguments used to promote this didactic approach are outlined; (2) different conceptualizations of science learning through scientific practices are critically analyzed; (3) the integration of the non-epistemic dimension in such an approach is justified on the basis of the literature on philosophy, sociology and history of science; and finally (4) the rationale for some non-epistemic practices that could be addressed in basic science education is proposed. Keywords: epistemic practices; non-epistemic practices; inquiry; science education; scientific practices.