Descripción

The purpose of this text is, first of all, to describe the contributions of Problem-based Learning in the formation of scientific competence in the students of the eighth and ninth multi-grade classroom of the rural secondary school, using a real learning scenario and, secondly, to evaluate the practical application of the solution found in the bakery laboratory of the San Francisco de Asís Municipal Educational Center. The Research Action methodology was developed under the qualitative paradigm, with a hermeneutical approach for the interpretation of human actions and perceptions. Resistance to change was found, being essential the dialogue of knowledge of rural culture with scientific knowledge. The knowledge to know and to do was mainly favored, being necessary to work more the know-being. Through this work a new practical element was contributed to the P-bL, since it goes from the theoretical application to the practical application of the solution.