Abstract

ROMERO CHACON, Ángel; AGUILAR MOSQUERA, Yirsen  and  MEJIA, Luz Stella. Nature of science and physics teacher training. The experimentation case. CPU-e. Rev. Investig. Educ [online]. 2016, n.23, pp.75-98. ISSN 1870-5308.

Some foundations and results of the research entitled “The experimentation and training processes of science teachers”, developed by the Group Estudios Culturales sobre las Ciencias y su Enseñanza at the University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, are presented. The research was aimed to support a physics teacher training proposal, addressing experimentation and closely with reflections that comes from the Nature of science. A documentary analysis was developed both as a case study of qualitative-interpretative type of statements of a group of physics teachers about issues related to experimentation. The developed analyzes allowed to characterize ways to assume the role of experimentation in science class, which formed the basis for designing a proposal for science teaching around experimentation, aimed at physics teacher training and contextualized with contributions from the Nature of science.

Keywords : Science education; training teachers; experimentation; philosophy of science; history of science.