Proyectos investigativos en educación en ciencias: articulaciones desde enfoques histórico-epistemológicos, ambientales y socioculturales

Abstract

This compilation of eight student works from the 2014-3 cohort, from the Science Education emphasis of the Interinstitutional Doctoral Program in Education at the Francisco José de Caldas District University (die-ud), is the result of structuring research projects in various aspects, ranging from the formulation of background information, the development of theoretical frameworks, the construction of state-of-the-art research, and proposals for methodological development. Each chapter presents an abstract in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, with the aim of linking this production to a broad search system that responds to a dissemination strategy and meets the expectations of readers in the international academic community of science education. The first four chapters are the result of work within the DIDAQUIM research group, the first under the direction of Professor Álvaro García Martínez, and the next three by Professor William Manuel Mora Penagos. The last four chapters were developed within the INTERCITEC group under the direction of Professor Adela Molina Andrade. The first chapter, entitled "Contributions of the History and Philosophy of Biology to the Construction of a Conceptual Profile of Biological Evolution," presented by Germán Alberto Chaves, connects the meta-disciplinary fields of the History and Philosophy of Biology with Biology Didactics from the theoretical perspective of a "Conceptual Profile" (CP) in the teaching of the concept of Biological Evolution (BE). In the second chapter, "Sustainability/Sustainability: A Differentiating Perspective from Latin American Environmental Thought," Claudia María Cardona reflects from a differentiating perspective, consistent with "Latin American environmental thought," on the sustainability/sustainability relationship as a contribution to the theoretical basis of the line of research on "Inclusion of the Environmental Dimension in Science Teaching," within the conceptual context of her research project on "University Teacher Training Linked to Curriculum Design: An Experience of Including the Environmental Dimension in Education Mediated by ICTs."