Faculty of Education

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Research group

Spanish

INNOVACIENCIA

Academic Unit: Faculty of Education

Colombian Ministry of Science

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Call

894 GrupLAC

OECD

Area

Social sciences

Subarea

Educational sciences

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Strategic Focus

The group seeks to understand how scientific education can be improved by the conjoint use of alternative educational strategies based on problem solving and creativity development, CTSA (science, technology, society, and environment) and CSC (science–art–body) approaches, and contemporary optics such as using art for education in science and embodied cognition.

Additionally, we seek to delve into the contemporary theoretical presuppositions of scientific education aiming for a sensible reason-oriented education that moves away from instrumental reason and incorporates the integral being and its vitality for science teaching.

Research Lines and/or Areas

Modeling and problem solving.
Science, technology, society, and environment approach.
Scientific representations.
The Science–Art–Body interface and its role within sciences teaching.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Group Coordinator

José Joaquín García García, PhD

PhD in Didactics of Experimental Sciences

Universdad de Granada, Spain.

Coordinator's Email

joaquin.garcia@udea.edu.co yocolombiano@yahoo.com.mx

Scientific Cooperation

Collaborative Relationships

RIGES: Research network for knowledge management.

CIEAC: CODEMA center for advanced research and studies.

Highlighted Projects

Approaching problematic situations by means of a curriculum environmentalization approach understood as a didactic model. An application to teaching of the theory of gas behavior.
Use and comprehension of cartesian graphic representations included in text-books of experimental sciences (Chemistry) and used during its teaching process (Chemistry).
Complex interactions between modeling and multi-register representation processes in experimental sciences.
Sensible reason, the possibilities offered by the theater semiotic register for science teaching.
Pedagogies of the self. Present history of teaching as a practice of “saying,” social truth, and singularities of “saying” in multiple cases registered in public schools from the municipality of Medellin.

Key Research Findings

Didáctica de las ciencias: resolución de problemas y desarrollo de la creatividad (Didactics of sciences: problem solving and creativity development) ISBN 9789582006792
Enseñar física a través del teatro (Teaching physics through theather). DOI: 10.31910/rudca.v23.n2.2020.1139
Ciencia consentida: resignificando los sentidos en la enseñanza de las ciencias (Consented Science: Resignifying the Senses in the Teaching of Science). DOI: 10.17227/ted.num47-11337
Teatro para aprender, enseñar y curar: Usos académicos y terapéuticos del teatro (Theater for learning, teaching, and curing: Academic and therapeutic uses of theater). DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvpwhcq8
El drama creativo una herramienta para la formación cognitiva, afectiva, social y académica de estudiantes y docentes (Creative drama: a tool for cognitive, emotional, social and academic development of students and teachers). DOI: 10.11600/1692715x.1520430082016
La razón sensible en la educación científica: Las potencialidades del teatro para la enseñanza de las ciencias (Sensible reason in scientific education: the possibilities offered by theater for science teaching). DOI: 10.14482/zp.26.10204.

Services and/or Products Portfolio

Development of didactic strategies and training of experimental sciences teachers in fields such as problem solving, creativity development, and CTSA (science, technology, society, and environment) and CSC (science–art–body) approaches.
Formulation of projects that delve into the science–art interface in science teaching, and teacher training in this subject.
Formulation of projects that delve into the science–art interface in science teaching: embodied cognition and teacher training in this subject.