Clasificación de los trabajos prácticos contenidos en libros de texto de física en la educación media.

Abstract

This work took as a main intention to establish the targets, the characteristics and the conceptions from which the practical work is prepared in the textbooks of physics of the secondary school. To give fulfillment to this target there was a documentary analysis of different types of practical work that appear in a sample of textbooks of secondary school to classify them from the contributions done by Albaladejo and Caamaño (2004). The elements of the sample were six textbooks and one of consultation of physics used in the secondary school in Colombia. For the results presentation was realized a count of the practical activities, an analysis of the distribution of practical work, a review of the procedural targets and actitudinales of every practical work and its classification in accordance with the established categories. In the systematization of the information, stage and statistical graphs were used. The results showed that the practical work found in the texts is mostly of evidentiary character (type recipe) and to less scale those that might end in scientific investigations. Nevertheless one admits that the success that the practical work can has in the processes of education and learning they depend greatly on the time that was spent, the organization and preparation of lesson plans, the needs and interests of the students and the preparation of the teachers in the scientific contents.