La formación del profesorado universitario de ciencias. El conocimiento didáctico y la investigación científica

Abstract

The interest in the development of new pedagogical strategies for experimental science teaching have increased these days. Thus, in order to teach a contextualized and provisional image of science, the nature of science knowledge must be linked with the pedagogical content knowledge to be taught. A pedagogical proposal about the nature of the scientific research is posed in this work to contribute with university teachers’ education in the field of Health Sciences using action research model. Criteria for the design and the analysis of enacting results are presented here. The results show that university teachers uphold hypothetic-deductive images about Science but these were provisional, and they based their teaching on mainly intuitive ideas. The work in small groups and plenary debate allowed to confront teachers’ representations, to reflect about own and others’ images of science, as well as to review possible theoretical founded teaching strategies.