Aprendizaje por descubrimiento: principios y aplicaciones inadecuadas

Abstract

[EN]This article deals with a critical analysis of the practical applications of discovery learning. To this end, the principles on which we have reconstructed that theory of learning are used, according to a constructivist foundation of cognitive activity as a conjectural activity, mediated by sociocultural orientations. This article is based on previous research by the author (Barrón 1989, 1991a, 1991b). After defining and establishing the theoretical principles, the inadequate practical applications of discovery learning are examined, derived, in some cases, from an empiricist concept of discovery, and in others, from a acientific reductionism», «individualist», or «mechanistic» concepts of leaming by discovery.