Research in the Didactics of Experimental Sciences
Abstract
The present study is intended as an analysis of a number of research papers on science teaching in primary education presented over the last three years at the “Encuentros
de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales”, a symposium usually attended by a large number of primary teacher educators. We have looked at different dimensions in each piece of research such as the people conducting the study, the content investigated, the research procedures followed and the conclusions drawn. The results show that there are some causes of concern related, on the one hand, to the small number of studies conducted by primary teacher educators and, on the other hand, to a number of flaws in the theoretical frameworks and the empirical designs used as well as in the coherence of the conclusions drawn from the data.
These limitations should be addressed in future research.
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