La apropiación de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de futuros docentes durante el curso de Didáctica de la Física

Abstract

Science teacher training programs face a big challenge when it comes to re-signifying trainees' ideas of what it means to teach and to learn. This challenge is generated by the profound differences that exist between prospective teachers' previous experiences as lifelong learners and the current conceptions of teaching and learning coming from science education. This paper reports the appropriation of such conceptions achieved by pre-service physics teachers, throughout the course Didactics of Physics, which is part of their training. The motivation to report these results was the observation that, after a methodological reformulation of the course proposed for purposes unrelated to this research, students showed a deeper commitment to those conceptions, both at a personal and a collective level, in ways that went beyond the expectations of the course' instructors. Inspired by the concept of appropriation, from the literature on sociocultural learning, the authors adapted a suitable definition to interpret the phenomenon that occurred during the course. Results showed that the definition of appropriation used fit very well to the students' academic assessments and reflections, and allowed us to recognize appropriation in five of the six future teachers. Also, that the authentic and idiosyncratic ideas that define each pre-service teacher coincided with contemporary conceptions of learning and teaching from science education.