Abstract

NARANJO, Gabriela  and  CANDELA, Antonia. Ciencias naturales en un grupo con un alumno ciego: los saberes docentes en acción. RMIE [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.30, pp.821-845. ISSN 1405-6666.

An analysis is made of the knowledge an elementary teacher uses when teaching natural sciences to a fourth-grade group that includes a blind student. The study, of an ethnographic nature, shows that teaching activities are supported by knowledge related primarily to three aspects: how to ensure that students with heterogeneous characteristics make homogeneous progress in content; how to work specifically in the natural sciences; and how to resolve the tension between the need for individual and group attention. This knowledge, constructed socially and historically, allows the teacher to face the novel situation of having a blind student in the group. Such knowledge is elaborated and enriched during class in response to the demands of daily work, and to the teacher’s interest in having all students participate in constructing scholastic learning.

Keywords : teaching work; science teaching; educational integration; basic education; the blind; ethnography; Mexico.

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