Analysis of the psychological meaning of the concept science in primary and secondary school teachers: an approach from an experience of continuous

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Cristián Manuel Aguilar Correa, Dr.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to analyze the psychological meanings of current teachers participating in a process of continuous training. The intentional, non-probabilistic sample was composed of graduate students of the Natural Sciences program (Valdez, 2005), 46 teachers—23 of them elementary education teachers and 23 secondary teachers specializing in Physics, Chemistry and Biology—, currently being trained in scholastic scientific research.


The methodology used in this research was the technique of Natural Semantic Networks (Valdez, 1998), a tool that seeks to identify the influence of culture in the psychological construction of identities. The study concludes that the teachers in the study displayed traditional, positivist beliefs on science. They conceive a science of algorithmic and formal teaching, based on the transmission of concepts and the construction of definitive, static, true, and absolute
scientific thinking

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Aguilar Correa, C. M. (2019). Analysis of the psychological meaning of the concept science in primary and secondary school teachers: an approach from an experience of continuous. Revista Comunicación, 28(2), 4–16. https://doi.org/10.18845/rc.v28i2-2019.4925
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Author Biography

Cristián Manuel Aguilar Correa, Dr., Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile

El Dr. Cristian Aguilar es graduado como Profesor de Educación General Básica, como Magister en Educación
de las Ciencias y como Doctor en Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, en la Universidad Complutense
de Madrid. En la actualidad, trabaja en el Departamento de Formación Inicial Escolar de la Facultad
de Ciencias de la Educación, de la Universidad Católica del Maule-Chile. Contacto: caguilar@ucm.cl.

References

Aguilar, C. (2019). Análisis del significado psicológico sobre el concepto ciencia en profesores de enseñanza básica y media: una aproximación desde una
experiencia de formación continua. Revista Comunicación (28)2-2019