RT Journal Article
T1 Enhancing argumentation and decision‑making of preservice early childhood education teachers through role‑playing on animal experimentation
A1 Vicente, Juan José
A1 Franco-Mariscal, Antonio Joaquín
A1 Oliva, José María
K1 Educación infantil
K1 Juegos de rol
K1 Profesores - Formación profesional
K1 Experimentación animal
AB This study explores the socio-scientific issue of the relevance of animal experimentationusing a role-playing game to develop argumentation and decision-making skills as keycomponents of critical thinking. The activity was conducted with two cohorts, each con-sisting of 30 pre-service early childhood education teachers at the University of Málaga(Málaga, Spain). The study analyzes the arguments provided by the participants to justifytheir decisions and perceptions on the issue before and after engaging in the role-playing.The findings reveal a progression of participants from the initial rejection of animal exper-imentation to recognizing its imperative role in shaping scientific knowledge. Addition-ally, an enhancement in the understanding of rational aspects of the issue is detected, asobserved through the evolution of the types of arguments employed in justifications beforeand after the intervention. Furthermore, emotionally charged arguments related to ethicaland moral aspects of the issue are also observed.
PB Springer
YR 2024
FD 2024-05-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32015
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32015
LA eng
NO Vicente, J.J., Franco-Mariscal, A.J. & Oliva, J.M. Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation. Sci & Educ (2024).
NO Funding for open access publishing: Universidad Málaga/CBUA. This work is part of the R+D+i Project ‘Citizens with critical thinking: A challenge for teachers in science education’, referenceJ. J. Vicente et al.1 3 PID2019-105765GA-I00, and the Project ‘Modeling in science education: from science classroom toteacher training’, reference PID2022-136353NB-I00, both funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaciónand Agencia Estatal de Investigación [grant number MCIN/AEI/10.13039/ 501100011033].
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026