Chemistry teachers training from the explanation of everyday phenomena: a proposal with results

• Main Authors: Morales Pérez, Roy Waldhiersen;, Manrique Rodríguez, Franklin Alberto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Cádiz 2012-01-01
• Series: Revista Eureka sobre Enseñanza y Divulgación de las Ciencias
• Subjects: química cotidiana; formación de profesores; unidades didácticas; explicación; niveles de representación del discurso químico; experimentos ilustrativos; everyday chemistry; teacher training; didactic units; explanations; lecture demonstrations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10498/14629

This paper shows the research results obtained with a group of pre-service chemistry teachers at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, employing didactic units focused in everyday chemistry as strategy for chemistry teaching. The explanations of pre-service chemistry teachers for the analyzed everyday chemical phenomena were characterized according to its admissibility and chemical levels of representation. The project allowed consolidating a space which employs coherently disciplinary and didactic aspects of chemistry, contributing to the pre-service teachers with resources and methodologies to transform the traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation of chemistry.