The process of constructing meaningful knowledge regarding water in high school. Case studies

Abstract

In the present paper, we address the problem of knowing the process of constructing meaningful knowledge in students of 1 º de bachillerato at a secondary school in the city of Seville in relation to water issues. For this purpose a learning experience was carried out for three months where we applied a teaching program whose basic principles were the constructivist learning perspective, the epistemological perspective of the students both complexity e research. Within the knowledge construction process, a special effort was made to identify what the most difficult transitions for students within the four categories proposed were.