César Paredes-Turra, Luigi Cuellar, Jaime Huincahue

Proceedings of the 28th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2024, pp. 246-251 (2024); https://doi.org/10.54808/WMSCI2024.01.246

César Paredes-Turra
Facultad de Educación, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile / Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile

Luigi Cuellar
Facultad de Educación Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Jaime Huincahue
Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile

Cite this paper as:
Paredes-Turra, C., Cuellar, L., Huincahue, J. (2024). Conceptions about the Nature of Science of a Sample of Practicing Chemistry Teachers in the Province of Concepción, Chile. In N. Callaos, E. Gaile-Sarkane, N. Lace, B. Sánchez, M. Savoie (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2024, pp. 246-251. International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.54808/WMSCI2024.01.246

The objective of this study is to describe the conceptions about the nature of science of 6 chemistry teachers working in private, subsidized, and municipalized schools in the province of Concepción - Chile, who have participated in a series of teacher training and reflection workshops. The data were collected from a Likert-type questionnaire designed to determine the teachers' image of science. The results show a significant change with respect to their epistemological thinking at the beginning of the workshops, and that together with a metadisciplinary and reflective training, have caused a resignification on the conceptions about the nature of science.