Abstract

VAZQUEZ ALONSO, Ángel  and  MANASSERO MAS, María Antonia. Out-of-School Activities Related to Science and Technology. REDIE [online]. 2007, vol.9, n.1, pp.1-34. ISSN 1607-4041.

The artificial and natural environment constitutes an extensive educational resource in whose framework occur the basic experiences that contribute to the development process of the human beings. These experiences are the source of the knowledge that the students contribute to the school and that are key to build the scientific school learning. This article reports the results of a study that undertakes the out-of-school experiences related to the science and the technology, throughout the application of a list of inventory to a sample of students that completed the obligatory teaching (basic education). The experiences show a relatively low global frequency, characterized by some qualitative and quantitative differences according to some grouping variables like gender and the election of science subject, and according to different topics and scientific disciplines. In spite of its importance for the learning, the school curriculum is used to ignoring this prior experience of the students. Finally, the interest of these results is discussed to achieve a curricula of science and fairer technology, from a teaching of the science for all and humanist perspective.

Keywords : Background; educational background; socioeconomic background; science education; gender differences; science curriculum.