La construcción de nociones básicas de química en ciencias agropecuarias: el caso de "efectos electrónicos en las moléculas"

Abstract

The understanding of the structure-properties relation is of great importance in the chemistry study in Agricultural Sciences. In this sense, starting from the difficulties found in students when applying this conceptual nucleus, we identified the basic notion molecular electronic effects and proposed the research of its conceptual construction. In this study, two methodologies were applied: questionnaire and clinical se­mistructured interview. The answers and the arguments of the students showed certain epistemological obstacles. These were: the tendency to generalization, the immediate empiricism and the simplistic models that would act blocking the profound thoughts. We concluded that the learning of the notion: molecular electronic effects needs to display its overall epistemological complexity.