DEL CAMBIO CONCEPTUAL A LA RE-ESTRUCTURACIÓN REPRESENTACIONAL: Estudio de caso a partir de la noción de ciencia que poseen los ingresantes a la Universidad de Buenos Aires

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.3211923192

• Palavras-chave: Atena

• Keywords: University; Science; Conceptual Change; Representational Change; Representational re-structuring

• Abstract:

  This paper aims to give an

  account of the partial results of a research

  carried out around the notion of “science” that

  the students possess and that they acquire in

  their passage through the subject “Introduction

  to Scientific Thought” of the Common Basic

  Cycle (CBC) of Buenos Aires University (UBA

  - Argentina). “What notion of science did they

  have before entering the university?”, “Through

  what instances did they obtain it?” And “What

  was their later conception?” Were the questions

  that guided the construction of the survey so

  that the students could visualize the “before”

  and the “after” and, consequently, they could

  see what their representations and implicit ideas

  about science were (representations acquired

  fundamentally during their primary and secondary schooling and from the consumption

  of means of scientific dissemination) and how they “collided” or were contrary to the

  political and socio-historical dimension of the concept of science that was proposed to

  them from the IPC program. Also, this proposal is in line with another: the intention to

  think the passage from the idea of “conceptual change” to the one of “representational

  re-structuring”, going through the development of J.I. Pozo (et al) on the concept of

  “representational change”. Changing a concept or substituting a content does not imply

  changing the cognitive, practical and affective structure on which the general scheme of

  thought is sustained. That is why an attempt was made to broaden the problem towards

  the restructuring of the way of exercising thought (representative re-structuring) based

  on the “revisitation” and the implementation of a dialectical operation on the concept of

  “science” possessed and acquired.

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