Abstract

ITHURALDE, Raúl Esteban; MOCCAGATTA, María Eugenia  and  DUMRAUF, Ana Gabriela. Teaching Natural Sciences in Primary Schools for Young People and Adults: Hegemonies and Resistances. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2024, n.55, pp.117-133.  Epub Jan 28, 2025. ISSN 0121-3814.  https://doi.org/10.17227/ted.num55-17885.

In this research paper we explore the diversity of teaching practices of Natural Sciences that are carried out in the Primary Education of Youth and Adults in the province of Santiago del Estero. We conducted classroom observations and interviews with teachers and administrators and a feedback workshop with staff from one of the schools participating in the study. We found different tensions between curricular documents, teaching practices and unmet needs for continuous teacher training. We recognised the existence of hegemonic practices that are decontextualized, with an inductivist image of science that is far removed from the territories where the educational centers are located. At the same time, there are teaching practices with a problematizing directionality of situations of injustice that promote dialogues of knowledge and experiences. However, in the absence of institutional spaces for exchange and reflection among teachers, these practices are neither systematized nor disseminated to the whole, which reduces their transformative potential.

Keywords : adults education; intercultural education; science education; image of science; educational tensions.

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