Scope and limitations of learning by projects to develop critical thinking

This article shows part of the result of the use of learning by projects, as a didactic strategy to develop critical thinking in natural sciences from theexecution of a classroom project with the students of the fifth and eighth grades of the Educational Institution “Joaquín González Camargo”. Thisproject was carried out under a qualitative approach, which allowed to review the initial level of critical thinking through a previous questionnaire, following the observation during the implementation of the strategy and the evaluation using the observation guide and the checklist. The group under study was144 students, with whom, once the strategy was applied, it was established within the results that have a level of beginner thinker, being learning byprojects a useful strategy to encourage critical thinking, although there are aspects outside classroom practices that interfere with the process.

• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/11470
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/educacion_y_ciencia/article/view/9370; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/11470
• Palabra clave: Natural Sciences, critical thinking, learning; Natural Sciences, critical thinking, learning
• License: Derechos de autor 2019 EDUCACIÓN Y CIENCIA