Abstract

ROJAS-CABALLERO, Gabriela Beatriz. The epistemological obstacle and critical thinking. Rev. Int. Investig. Cienc. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.2, pp.305-320. ISSN 2226-4000.  https://doi.org/10.18004/riics.2017.diciembre.305-320.

This work, take focus on the notion of obstacle proposed by Gaston Bachelard in his work “The training of scientific spirit” published in 1934. The obstacle in presented to confront to normal science, however, what happened when multiple theories are accepted? It turns to be still necessary, to use the obstacle as a method for knowledge? This concept is a method that allows a different interpretation of reality. In others word, the obstacle make possible deconstruction in front some previous knowledge and give place to other proposition. This proposition is in charge promoting and developed scientific culture in a country. How this scientific culture is visualized in Paraguayan researches? Institutions and different social agents composed the scientific culture. So the teachers as social agents: does their practice developed scientific spirit? In this way, the epistemological rupture described by Bachelard motivates the necessity to review this concept in order to install critical thinking and scientific culture.

Keywords : Knowledge; epistemology; proliferation of theories; critical thinking.

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