Role of didactic Experimentation in the Science Laboratory: evidence of Meaningful Learning of science teachers

A descriptive interpretive study in which possible evidence of meaningful learning of eight science teachers during their process of integrative construction of meanings on the role of didactic experimentation in science education is presented. It was proposed to provide a potentially significant constructivist didactic orientation on the epistemological and remote approach of the LDC; to raise the previous knowledge of science teachers about the role of didactic experimentation in the teaching of science, and to estimate the integrative construction process of teachers' meanings about the role of didactic experimentation in the teaching of science. The systematization of the information referred a predominance of traditionalist pedagogical visions. However, the development of the didactic orientation favored the process of integrative construction of meanings, evidenced by the emergence of alternative pedagogical views and trends, tending to constructivism based on research practices and problem solving in the didactic laboratory of science.