La formación en ciencias de los estudiantes del grado en maestro de Educación Primaria

Abstract

We start from the assumption that teaching science by inquiry, both in the training of pre-service teachers and in primary school, will allow a better understanding of science and the nature of science. Nevertheless, students arrive to the degree with traditional visions about science teaching, deficits in scientific content and naive views about the nature of science, that have to be overcome in order to learn the teaching and learning by inquiry. In this sense, we present a proposal integrated of three disciplines in the Primary Teacher degree, thought as stages that would help students to achieve the knowledge necessary to develop and use the inquiry. The results obtained seem to show that the strategies adopted are effective to achieve positive changes in their image of science, in their perception of the importance of teaching science significantly in primary school and its intention to apply methodologies that encourage children to question and to investigate natural phenomena.