Biocontexto and competencies

Abstract

This paper approaches the issue of the application of the competences to scientific matters with students of Secondary Education –Sciences for the Contemporary World and Biology-. If we pay attention to the context in which we live, based on the widespread use of the TIC and the web 2.0, it is only natural to find a revolution of knowledge in these two disciplines and a great quantity of content that makes almost indispensable to deal with the way of teaching the students. It is important to change the basic lectures in which the teacher uses a great amount of technical vocabulary of biology to another pedagogic strategy. In Catalunya, for years, there has been a different way to approach the biology contents of the subjects. This initiative is focused on the context of the students, very important to them, and from which it is possible to articulate basic knowledge of this subject. The changes that were introduced in the entrance examinations of Biology in 1998 were already going in this line and, possibly, they were the issue that led to break with the classical approaches. With this project called Biocontexto, a group of teachers proposes to approach all the contents of these subjects using biological contexts that are relevant.