Communicative interaction in natural sciences lessons. A didactic analysis based on discursive circuits

This work argues the role of communication in natural sciences classrooms and delimits a way of analysis in relation to interactive discursive circuits. Three types of circuits for experimental sciences lessons are compared: open exposition, guided dialog and problematic dialogic inquiry. The data summary the records of a group of interpretative research developed by the team in the last years ten years, which analyses the dialogue associated with science topics and cycles of activity. The resulting scale of analysis and types of intervention sequences held by teachers and students are presented. Based on them, communication circuits are modeled ranging from the traditional classroom to a constructivist one. It is concluded in relation to the need of including the problem of communication in the classroom throughout the educational practice and the processes of teacher training, making it part of the design, development and evaluation of the teaching task.