Description of attitudes belonging to the Research Pedagogy and the World Questioning in high school

Abstract

In the framework of Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD) the attitudes that characterize the Paradigm of Questioning the World are described and analyzed in high school: problematization, herbartian, procognitive, exoteric and ordinary encyclopedic. These attitudes are defined by the ATD as necessary for the development of an RSP; within the paradigm of questioning, which teleology is the building of democratic and critics citizens. The study 1 was made with a group of students who studied mathematics during two years from an educational organization point of view focused on Research and Study Path (RSP). It was designed and implemented a RSP on the question “Which is the best savings plan to generate the higher amount of incomes at a low risk?”