RT Conference Proceedings T1 Skills that Pre-service Primary Teachers’ consider important in argumentation approach A1 Martín-Gámez, Carolina A1 Prieto-Ruz, María Teresa A1 Acebal, María del Carmen K1 Profesores -- Formación profesional AB Argumentation as a form of scientific discourse is a powerful tool that allows students questioning, justifying, and evaluating their and others’ claims. In science education, transmissive teaching predominates and this leads to difficulties in students’ construction of arguments and highlights limitations in teachers' pedagogical abilities in the management of this type of activities. Also, teachers' beliefs and perceptions have a big influence in the way they teach. Thus, the purpose has been to investigate pre-service primary teachers’ beliefs of what would be the skills they need as a core to support argumentation in science classrooms, and what skills students can develop when participate in science lessons based in argumentation. Results show that Pre-service Teachers of Primary pay little attention to the skills they will need in order to manage different methodological strategies as debate, pair work or pair discussion, that support the argumentation approach. Moreover, they lack of awareness about what is a good argument and its components, besides scientific knowledge. These results are significant because they indicate a need in designing specific training programs to support teachers in acquiring knowledge and skills about argumentation. YR 2017 FD 2017-09-01 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14419 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14419 LA spa NO Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. This study is part of the project “La argumentacıón como estrategıa metodológıca para el desarrollo de competencıas profesıonales docentes.” [Argumentation as a methodological strategy for the development of professional teacher competences] (PIE15-74) funded by the University of Málaga in the assembly of 2015 DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 24 ene 2026