¿Y si trabajan en grupo...? Interacciones entre alumnos, procesos sociales y cognitivos en clases universitarias de física

Abstract

This paper presents some results of a case study about the characteristics of the interactions between pupils in groupworks, in the context of an innovative teaching experience of Physics at university level. Videorecordings were carried out during classes of the unit on Thermodynamics and some pupils from a focal group were interviewed. Analysis focused on group processes from the linguistic, social and cognitive perspectives. Results suggest that sharing cognitive processes by a group of student, through reasoning and argumentation, may be an answer to the challenges of teaching practice at university level.