El rol del texto escolar “ciencias naturales” del Ministerio de Educación en el desarrollo del currículo de cuarto año de educación general básica en la Unidad Educativa Don Bosco La Tola

Abstract

This qualitative research the reason out in order to establish the structure of the Natural Sciences school text at the fourth year of Basic General Education, in the Educational Unit Don Bosco La Tola, also investigate its role in the development of the National Curriculum in terms of teacher planning and practice in the classroom. The theoretical basis allowed sustaining and deepening about the advantages and disadvantages of the school text for the progress of the Curriculum, teaching and learning in the schooling process, the functions and basic components concreted in the curriculum, as well the application of the curriculum to the context and the classroom based on the school text of Natural Sciences. For this purpose, techniques and tools were applied such as: analysis of the structure of the texts: Teacher's Guide and Student Text, through matrices on content, sequence and methods; interview with teachers, through a questionnaire on the text and teaching practice; finally, the direct observation of teaching practice and the use of school text in the classroom, the tool of which was the field journal. The outstanding result was that it is confirmed that the official school text is the indispensable tool for the teacher when planning, designing and executing his classes guided by the structure of this resource, which totally determines the development National Curriculum in the classroom.