SCIENCE EDUCATION AND COMPETENCES HUM974

Description

The Research Group on Science Education and Competences (ENCIC) has its origins in 2010 when a group of teachers of Science Education Department at the University of Malaga and Secondary School teachers from various schools of Malaga, begins to develop a research project around the development of scientific competence in compulsory education. ENCIC has been developing its research, development and transfer tasks, based on the need to link research with educational practice. In short, ways are sought to integrate competencies in science teaching.

Research Topics

Development of scientific competencies in daily life problems through scientific practices of argumentation, inquiry and modeling.
Development of critical thinking in science teaching and teacher training.
Educational games and recreational resources in science teaching.
Environmental awareness and its inclusion in the training of teachers
Teaching science and technology from a gender perspective.
Treatment of socially alive issues from the teaching of sciences.
Collective activism based on scientific research.
Transfer of inquiry, contextualization and STEAM approaches to classrooms.
Development and monitoring of the teaching identity of secondary education teachers in initial and new training.

Scientific-Technical Services

Delivery of workshops in educational centers on educational games, role-playing games, controversy mapping and mobile applications for science teaching.
Advice to departments and science teachers for the development of learning situations.
Advice to the university community on activities, events and projects on science teaching and/or dissemination.