Epistemología y cognición epistémica: la virtud problemática del relativismo y sus implicaciones para la enseñanza de la ciencia

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Mauricio Herrón

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La investigación en cognición epistémica ha demostrado que las creencias que tienen los adolescentes y los jóvenes adultos acerca de la naturaleza del conocimiento cambian a través de etapas fijas de desarrollo. Modelos propuestos en las cuatro últimas décadas han indicado, que la naturaleza de estas epistemologías personales tiende a cambiar de objetivista a relativista, y que este cambio refleja una transición ascendente en términos de complejidad respecto a la cognición epistémica. El supuesto subyacente es que la cognición epistémica cambia hacia diferentes formas de relativismo en analogía con lo que ha ocurrido a los principios epistemológicos centrales de la mayoría de ciencias en la historia moderna (e.g., física, biología).  se ha pensado que gran parte del éxito de los estudiantes en la educación científica depende de cómo éstos entienden el conocimiento, considerando el pensamiento basado en ideas relativistas como un logro necesario para el aprendizaje de la ciencia. 

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Mauricio Herrón, Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, Colombia.

Psicólogo, universidad del norte (colombia). Becario fulbright-colciencias-universidad del norte estudiante de postgrado purdue university (estados unidos)

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