Analysis of the Investigations developed in the master “Teaching of Chemistry” in Camagüey. (Original)

Abstract

In correspondence with the social demand of upgrading the professors of Chemistry in the secondary education levels, half superior and superior, the Department of Chemistry of the University of Camagüey "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz", among the graduate degree activities, the Master in "Teaching of Chemistry" is offered. Three editions have been developed and a fourth is in execution. The purpose of the present work is to analyze the investigations developed in this master degree. Surveys were applied to graduate and the documental revision that was made: The program of the master degree, the records of the process of defense of the theses and the opponent’s reports. The main results verify that they have been discussed and approved 26 theses, the thematic ones approached they include the environmental education, the evaluation process, intellectual abilities, the inter-disciplinary and the nano-technology, they have been carried out proposals of methodologies and strategies for their application in the different teaching levels. In the defense acts the domain of the presented topics and the use of didactic mediators have prevailed. The graduate ones have pointed out among the main difficulties of the investigative process the presentation in events and the publication of the results, these aspects coincided with the designations of opponents. A heterogeneous preparation of the participantsexists to carry out the investigation, bearing to present difficulties in all the inherent tasks to this process, it is necessary to increase the use of the bibliography in English and the preparation in Methodology of the Investigation.