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Pablo Valdés
Science education and the “state of the world”: a programme of activities to enhance teacher’s perception of global problems and possible remedies
A literatura sobre formação de professores de ciências não tem tratado suficientemente a situação do mundo quanto a uma percepção global de seus graves problemas atuais. O presente artigo consiste essencialmente de um programa de atividades a ser desenvolvido com professores em formação e em exercício, que visa favorecer uma reflexão coletiva e conscientização sobre essa problemática. Nesta perspectiva é apontado um conjunto de referências e questões para um debate fundamentado sobre vários dos fatores associados à degradação da vida e sobre possíveis medidas para o enfrentamento da emergência planetária. Investigações preliminares sobre a utilização do programa proposto têm revelado result…
Technology as 'Applied Science': a Serious Misconception that Reinforces Distorted and Impoverished Views of Science
The current consideration of technology as "applied science", this is to say, as something that comes "after" science, justifies the lack of attention paid to technology in science education. In our paper we question this simplistic view of the science-tecnology relationship, historically rooted in the unequal appreciation of intellectual and manual work, and we try to show how the absense of the technological dimension in science education contributes to a naive and distorted view of science which deeply affects the necessary scientific and technological literacy of all citizens. Fil: Gil Perez, Daniel. Universidad de Valencia; España Fil: Vilches, Amparo. Universidad de Valencia; España F…
El trabajo práctico en la enseñanza de las ciencias: una revisión
Resumen basado en el de la publicación Resumen en inglés Se presenta una revisión sobre la efectividad de las prácticas en educación científica en los niveles secundario y terciario. A través de la revisión de más de cien referencias, se concluye que no se han proporcionado argumentos sólidos para justificar la gran cantidad de recursos materiales y humanos necesarios para la implementación de esta herramienta educativa. A pesar de estos resultados decepcionantes, los autores no se niega el papel central de las prácticas en la educación científica y se justifican estos resultados negativos al invocar la gran complejidad del tema, la ambigüedad que rodea el término «prácticas», y una metodol…
Teaching of energy issues: A debate proposal for a global reorientatiom
The growing awareness of serious difficulties in the learning of energy issues has produced a great deal of research, most of which is focused on specific conceptual aspects. In our opinion, the difficulties pointed out in the literature are interrelated and connected to other aspects (conceptual as well as procedural and axiological), which are not sufficiently taken into account in previous research. This paper aims to carry out a global analysis in order to avoid the more limited approaches that deal only with individual aspects. From this global analysis we have outlined 24 propositions that are put forward for debate to lay the foundations for a profound reorientation of the teaching o…
El desafío de preservar el Planeta: un llamamiento a todos los educadores
Acciones formativas para preservar el Planeta. Formative actions to preserve the Planet.