The ondas Minciencias program as a strategy to strengthen the investigative abilities and skills in children and young people El programa Ondas Minciencias como estrategia para fortalecer capacidades y habilidades investigativas en niños, niñas y jóvenes

Abstract

This article presents the results of an investigation on the implementation of the Ondas Minciencias program as a didactic proposal carried out in the Educational Institution (I.E.) Sagrados Corazones of the municipality of Puerto Rico Caquetá between 2019-2020. Its main objective was to know the contributions generated in the institution by this program aimed at promoting the development of skills and abilities to motivate the investigative vocation in children and adolescents and promote a culture of research in the school. This study was approached from the qualitative approach under the phenomenological design, in order to understand through the narratives of the participating agents (students, teachers, managers and administrators) their experiences, emotions and feelings derived from sharing the same event, phenomenon or occurrence. (like the Waves program). The in-depth interview (to the rector and administrators of the I.E.), semi-structured interviews (to participating teachers), a focus group (with students who made up the research groups) and the bibliographic review of secondary sources were used as instruments. As a result, it was obtained that the Ondas program generated significant transformations in the I. E. Regarding the didactic practices of participating teachers, which allowed to strengthen the capacities and investigative skills of the students and motivated the adjustments in the pedagogical component that promoted the implementation of the Environment modality in the institution.