Los fines de la educación científica y la formación inicial del profesorado de secundaria

Abstract

The present article forms a part of an investigation realized with pupils of the Master of Formation of the Professorship of Secondary Education that places inside a project of educational innovation. In this work has been obtained numerous qualitative information from the answers to questions opened, included in activities of classroom and which have answered 63 pupils of the specialities Biology-geology and Physicschemistry of the mentioned master. With the obtained information, we could have analyzed the motivations of the students for dealing this master and their conceptions on the initial necessary training to be a teacher as well as on the purposes of the scientific education. After analyzing the results, we have seen that there are different conceptions of students about the issues involved that they must be considered in the design and development of teacher training activities.