Considerations about research on analogies

• Main Authors: José Fernández González, Benigno Martín González González, Teodomiro Moreno Jiménez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2004-01-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: Analogías; educación; proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje; libros de texto.
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/236

Analogies have contributed to the building and development of scientific knowledge and to its later communication. Therefore, they are considered basic in the teaching-learning process of Science. The researching improvement has allowed us to put into context and to establish a positioning about the conception and structure of analogy, of analogical process of teaching-learning, and the criteria that allow us to classify the analogies present in the textbooks. This has awoken an interest in designing a learning method with analogies and in identifying and analyzing the analogies present in the textbooks of Secondary Education. The present analogies in the textbooks of Secondary Education of the most important publishing companies have been identified, classified and analyzed, and therefore, some recommendations have been proposed for future research.