¿Cuándo un contenido académico tiene significado para el alumno? Implicaciones didácticas

Abstract

The importance of identifying the prior ideas of students on a given content is based, among other reasons, on the need to accommodate the teaching processes to the cognitive peculiarities of the pupils. However, individuals tend to develop ideas or conceptions only for some academic purpose, that is to say for those that are meaningful to them. Hence the need to establish some observable criterion that permits classification of the content teaching purpose by their degree of meaning level, whose science education interest resides in the utilization of accepted teaching techniques with the said meaning level.