Keywords
instructional materials
textbooks
teacher developed materials
multiple correspondence analysis
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Abstract
This work presents the results of an investigation into the conceptions teachers hold on the use of curricular materials in the teaching of Natural and Social Science. Based on a questionnaire built for this purpose, information from 863 teachers from the eight provinces of Andalusia (Spain) was obtained. The analysis of multiple correspondences, reveals the existence of three factors that explain 71.2% of the variance, the first represents the ideas linked to beginners' idealism versus the realism generated by experience; the second, the support of the textbook versus the doubt about its usefulness, and a third, the active methodologies versus more traditional approaches.
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