Francisco Luis Naranjo-Correa

Universidad de Extremadura | UNEX · Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Matemáticas

Diversos estudios señalan que la metodología utilizada por el docente influye en el dominio afectivo y, por ende, en el cognitivo. Por ello, se hace necesario potenciar estrategias didácticas que favorezcan estados emocionales positivos en la enseñanza de las ciencias desde los primeros niveles educativos. En base a ello, el objetivo de la investig...

Numerosos estudios resaltan la relevancia de analizar tanto factores afectivos como cognitivos en el aprendizaje de contenidos STEM especialmente en educación secundaria, donde emergen hacia estas áreas emociones y actitudes negativas, así como bajos niveles competenciales. Esta investigación sigue un diseño cuasiexperimental con pre-test y post-te...

Several studies highlight that trainee primary school teachers show negative emotions towards learning and teaching STEM subjects with low levels of teacher self-efficacy in these areas. The general objective of this research was to analyse the cognitive, emotional and didactic development of STEM competences in trainee primary school teachers. Pra...

Studies related to teacher training in primary education indicate a lack of knowledge, low levels of teaching self-efficacy, and negative emotions towards the teaching of physics. The main objective of this research was to compare the influence of two teaching methodologies on the learning and teaching self-efficacy of teachers-in-training on optic...

Current educational curricula in Spain contain few references to sustainability topics, so there is insufficient coverage of these issues in the classroom. Notably, there is a lack of reference to the concept of water from a sustainable perspective. The key aim of this study was to analyze the presence of the concept of water in the curriculum that...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been recognized as innovative resources for improving the teaching–learning process. The aim of this study was to design and validate ICT-based learning interventions for sustainability content from a cognitive and affective perspective. Specifically, didactic resources based on a discovery lear...

Several international institutions emphasize the need to develop a comprehensive education in STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) to improve learning, competences and student perception of these subjects. The general objective of this study was to analyze the teaching effectiveness, from a cognitive and emotional perspective,...

Education for Sustainable Development requires improving the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of students at all levels of education. However, this should start from the earliest stages of education, promoting an effective teaching/learning process of key concepts for sustainable development. Accordingly, the general objective of this research wa...

The United Nations General Assembly has pointed out that education is an essential tool for properly instructing society to achieve sustainable development, in terms of values, skills, knowledge or abilities. Within this framework, this research focuses on environmental attitude and awareness as an influential element in the teaching and learning p...

Diversos estudios han señalado la relación del dominio afectivo y el cognitivo en ciencias. El objetivo ha sido comparar las emociones, actitudes y niveles de autoeficacia ante áreas STEM (Science, technology, Engineering and Mathematics) en diferentes etapas educativas. El diseño de investigación ha sido exploratorio y cuantitativo. La muestra ha...

Teaching and learning of concepts within the science, technology, society, and environment (STSE) approach, such as energy, are key elements in improving students’ competencies in sustainability within the framework of environmental education. The overall objective of this research has been to analyze the concept of energy in secondary education cu...

This work presents a series of didactic simulations to improve the teaching of colour at different educational levels. Specifically, the objective of these simulations was to show the student concepts related to metameric colour pairs. The simulations were developed using the software POV-Ray. This program was chosen because of its ability to gener...

The framework of sustainable development encompasses a series of behaviours which include the proper management of the waste we produce. This concept should be addressed in classrooms to ensure proper waste management. The amount of knowledge of the teachers and the inclusion of these concepts in the education curricula are essential factors when p...

Density is one of the most misunderstood concepts amongst the most basic scientific ones, although it is studied even from the earlier academic stages. This is the reason teachers must know its implications as well as possible, including not only the classical definition or what students called "formula" (density is equal to mass divided by volume)...

Recreational science experiences were used as a teaching tool in the learning process of two basic concepts at primary school level: pressure and density. These kinds of resources are widely spread as hook methodologies in non-formal educative areas, but this work puts them into the formal school space. A comparative study in four primary students...

In this work, an alternative formulation of the laws of refraction of light is presented. The proposed formulation unifies the two established laws of refraction, and it is shown the correspondence between the new and the classic formulations. This new formulation presents a remarkable didactic interest for the conceptual interpretation and resolut...

The overall purpose was to analyze the reference to the concept of waste (closely related to sustainable development within the framework of environmental education) in the regulation that standardizes Compulsory Secondary Education. A qualitative research design was carried out based on a descriptive statistical analysis. A system of categories ha...

La alfabetización científica y tecnológica es uno de los pilares del desarrollo educativo de los ciudadanos que forman nuestra sociedad. La adquisición del concepto de resi-duos desde el desarrollo y la responsabilidad es un elemento importante en la formación para la evolución social en el ámbito ambiental. En esta investigación se estudia el cono...

La formación del profesorado de ciencias ha de constituir uno de los pilares fundamen-tales para el desarrollo de la sociedad actual. Una de las líneas de investigación que está tomando auge en los últimos tiempos relaciona la influencia existente entre el dominio afectivo y el cognitivo en el proceso de aprender a enseñar contenidos científicos. C...

En la sociedad actual juegan un papel crucial para el desarrollo tanto la la ciencia como la tecnología, siendo necesario formar a las futuras generaciones para que sean capaces de resolver los problemas que se plantean derivados de la complejidad tecnológica, so-cial y cultural en la que estamos inmersos. Desde el punto de vista de la didáctica de...

El estudio que se presenta ha estado centrado en un proceso metacognitivo de reflexión cognitiva y emocional durante las prácticas docentes del maestro en formación. La muestra ha estado constituida por 42 alumnos de la Facultad de Educación durante la realización del Prácticum. El objetivo principal se ha centrado en el desarrollo emocional del pr...

Este estudio analiza la evolución en las emociones y creencias de autoeficacia que experimenta el alumnado de 2º del Grado en Educación Primaria. La muestra ha estado formada por 71 alumnos de la Facultad de Educación. La metodología ha sido de tipo descriptiva por encuesta, utilizando como instrumento de medida dos cuestionarios de elaboración pro...

This work presents an educational simulation to support students’ learning about the formation of the rainbow. The main aim of the simulation is to provide our students with a didactic tool in addition to their traditional laboratory practice, which can be easily implemented in e-learning teaching platforms. A system consisting of a flask filled wi...

Recent research indicates the importance of the concept of teaching self-efficacy in instructing different subjects. This study analyses the relationship of emotional competence with self-efficacy beliefs of teachers in training. The sample has been made by students of the Practicum of the 2nd year of the Degree in Early Childhood Education, who ha...

En los últimos años han surgido numerosos estudios que resaltan la necesidad de analizar el dominio afectivo-emocional con el cognitivo en la enseñanza de las ciencias experimentales. Trabajos previos de nuestro grupo de investigación relacionan cómo la componente emocional y actitudinal en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de las ciencias influye tanto e...

La comunidad de expertos en el ámbito de investigación de la didáctica de las ciencias experimentales coincide en la necesidad de que los profesores en formación deben tener una sólida formación teórica en la componente científica, así como poseer conocimientos sobre los contenidos didácticos y pedagógicos. De este modo, el desarrollo profesional d...

Los residuos constituyen uno de los elementos importantes de la educación científica y tecnológica, ya que su investigación permite comprender y explicar una gran cantidad de procesos científicos y tecnológicos que suceden en nuestro Planeta. Sin embargo, el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de los residuos, más allá de la compresión de conceptos...

The basic curriculum of secondary and upper secondary education regulates the elements that determine the process of teaching and learning of the different subjects and educational stages. In the research area of didactics of the experimental sciences it is relevant to analyse the Royal Decree that establishes the minimum teachings, with the object...

The community of experts in the field of research in the didactics of the experimental sciences agrees on the need for the teachers in training to have a solid theoretical training in the scientific component, as well as to possess knowledge about didactic and pedagogical contents. In this way, the professional development of the teacher is carried...

Fifty years ago the most widespread method of teaching was purely receptive. Discovery learning followed afterwards, and now is widely accepted that meaningful learning is the more effective educational system. What will be the preferred pedagogical method in a few years? How many years will be meaningful learning considered as the best teaching me...

We report on an experience carried out to show the didactic use of concept maps as tools for the development of a progressive explanation of the colour perception of a dress with ambiguous colours. Concept maps are used to promote a conceptual change in our students trying to answer the question: Why some people perceive the dress as blue & black a...

A comparative study was conducted between a traditional methodology for teaching scientific contents and an experimental methodology based on the construction of a didactic sequence using concept maps as a resource for teaching-learning. Four groups of students aged 9–10 were selected, two acting as Control Groups and two as Experimental Groups. Th...

In this work a research to analyse ideas about machines and energy from students in the third cycle of primary education has been conducted. Additionally, with the goal of improving student learning on the subject chosen, it has been implemented in the classroom a didactic intervention based on the use of different teaching resources such as models...

This work presents an innovative didactic proposal for the teaching and learning of the ‘technology, objects and machines’ content, within the framework of the subject “Knowledge of the Natural Environment in Primary Education”. Didactic-technological projects have been designed, built and developed to simultaneously address cognitive, emotional an...