Abstract

ROJAS, María Orfa; GARZON, Ruth  and  DEL RIESGO, Lilia. May We Continue Informing or May We Assume the Change?. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2006, vol.4, n.2, pp.177-185. ISSN 1692-7273.

Traditional educative systems, had convert students in passive recipient, who are keeping information without any possibility to process and apply it for the solution of daily problems. General discussion between educative researchers, had been establish the necessity to change the educative strategies that have been supporting those situations, looking for an integral education of the individual in terms of the capacity to argue, to create, to innovate, to develop by him self with independence. Governments, institutions and the politics requirements, that handle the globalization and the human development based in the knowledge economy, demand changes in the pedagogical system strategies in spite of the barriers from the traditional educative system. Responding to these necessity, the Biochemistry Department belong to the Basic Sciences Institute from the Medicine Faculty in the University of Rosario, is applying a different pedagogical strategy.

Keywords : active learning; Science education; teaching methods; basic science teaching; constructivism in science teaching; teach-learning cultural change.