PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF NATURAL SCIENCES: A VISION OF THE TEACHERS OF PARAGUANA

The purpose of this study was to reveal the key factors that influence the process of Teaching and Learning of Natural Sciences at the level of Initial Education in Paraguana, Venezuela. Under the qualitative paradigm, the key informants were 8 preschool teachers, who expressed their contributions in an Influence Matrix that was subsequently processed through the MICMAC software to consolidate a Prospective Structural Analysis of the phenomenon under study. The findings define the system, where the variable Absence of Application of Didactic Strategies on Natural Science stands out as a risk factor, and others such as Teaching Mediation to Generate Cognitive Conflict and Materials Exploration and Handling Activities, are presented as dependent variables, whose treatment would significantly influence the desired evolution of the system under study.