Descripción

The research let answer the question: in what way does the Problem-Based Learning strategy contributes to the development of argumentation, in the tenth and eleventh-grade students from Puerto Quinchana Educational Institution, Villa Fatima headquarters of the municipality of San Agustin, in the year 2019? It was a qualitative study, applied to a convenience sample of eleven students, oriented to understand and deepen the phenomenon taking the participant perspectives in their context; with a socio-critical approach since it was based on the self-reflective character and considered that knowledge is built by interests that arise from the needs of the groups. It enrolled in Action Research because it was possible to solve everyday problems by improving specific practices. With the implementation of the PBL, significant changes were shown in the structure of written argumentation and in compliance with the proposed structure for oral argumentation.