Pedagogy of research and questioning the world: teaching through research and study paths in secondary school

Abstract

This paper summarizes some researchers developed in the Nucleus of Research in Education in Science and Technology (NIECyT) in the last eight years. In total, 17 implementations in mathematics classrooms where (N=234) students participated, are reported. The framework of the Anthropologic Theory of the Didactic (ATD) has been adopted, emphasizing the notions of Pedagogy of the Research and Questioning the World and the Research and Study paths (RSP). The results obtained introducing in a local and controlled way different RSP in regular courses of Mathematics in the secondary school in Argentina, are presented. The generative questions, the different mathematical and extra mathematical organizations, and the RSP are analyzed; also the dialectics and the attitudes of the Pedagogy of research and questioning the world are described.