Estrategias pedagógicas para la enseñanza del concepto de saponificación a estudiantes de grado 11° de la Institución Educativa María Doraliza López de Mejía del Distrito turístico de Riohacha

Abstract

The present research work was developed in the María Doraliza López de Mejía Educational Institution of the Tourist and Cultural District of Riohacha (La Guajira) with thirty-five eleventh grade students, it is presented as an educational classroom proposal that aims to contribute to the improvement of the teaching of natural sciences (chemistry) and is based on the implementation of a series of pedagogical strategies of audiovisual, written, experimental - practical and oral type, for teaching the concept of saponification (soap formation reaction). This work is presented as an educational research from the pedagogy of the natural sciences under the interpretative qualitative perspective with an educational ethnographic character, some techniques were applied to collect information such as: the interview and the observation, which allowed to value the previous knowledge of the students, the selection of strategies and the evaluation of the impact of the application of these strategies as an educational proposal to improve the teaching of science. This research was developed in four phases: phase 1: exploration and diagnosis, phase 2: design of pedagogical strategies, phase 3: implementation of strategies and data collection, phase 4: analysis and interpretation of results. In conclusion, from the consideration of the cultural context of the students, their interests and concerns, it was possible to design pedagogical strategies that promoted the teaching of the concept of saponification in students of the 11th grade of the María Doraliza Educational Institution.