A didactic model to change education: the school research model

Abstract

The concept of didactic model for the analysis and intervention in the educational reality is often used in the field of education. This article offers an innovative didactic model that aims at transforming education: the "School Research Model", assumed by the so-called "Research and School Innovation" curricular project. First of all, this model is framed in an integrating conception of didactics, in order to analyse, next, its foundations, based on a constructivist and evolucionist perspective of knowledge, a systemic and complex perspective of school reality and a critical perspective of school transformation. On those bases rest the didactic theories of this model: a systemic conception of the classroom (and of the school contexts) and a theory of the making and construction of school knowledge (and professional knowledge). As a synthesis of the model stands out the importance of "research principle", which is applied to pupils' learning, teachers' professional training and the building of didactic knowledge.