Estrategia Didáctica bajo el enfoque Pedagógico enseñanza para la comprensión de las Ciencias Naturales en Educación Básica Primaria.

Abstract

The present study was carried out with the purpose of applying the didactic strategy from the pedagogical approach teaching for understanding, seeking to strengthen the learning of Natural Sciences in students of elementary school of the rural campuses of the Agustín Nieto Caballero School in the municipality of Tame, Arauca, Republic of Colombia. This research was based on the theory of the pedagogical approach teaching for understanding of David Perkins and the Zero project of Harvard University, among other theorists. Oriented by the socio-critical paradigm from a qualitative approach with an action research design. The study population was made up of 8 teachers from rural schools and 5 elementary school students from a school attached to the Agustín Nieto Caballero Educational Institution of the Municipality of Tame. For the collection of information, a semi-structured interview instrument with open questions designed for teachers and students was applied. Each interview consisted of four (4) questions and was validated by the judgment of 3 experts, triangulating the information between the informants, theorists and the researcher. It is concluded that teachers are unaware of didactic strategies related to the pedagogical approach teaching for understanding that have caused disinterest and low skills in students in the area of Natural Sciences. However, from the didactic strategy proposed in this research, the students obtained significant understandings about Natural Sciences, showing interest, pleasure and commitment to the activities programmed for each topic. This allowed the development of skills of investigation and explanation of phenomena from their environment as the main protagonists in the construction of new knowledge and experiences that have transcended the Ondas research program of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Minciencias).