QUALITATIVE EXPERIMENTATION: ALTERNATIVE TO ENHANCE ARGUMENTATION PROCESSES AND CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

This research article presents an analysis of how guided and exploratory qualitative experimentation constitutes a valuable alternative to stimulate argumentative processes and the construction of school scientific knowledge. It was framed in the line of observational study, using the intrinsic case study as a perspective. As main results, it is highlighted that the manipulation of the measurement instruments built by the participants, the systematization, discussion and analysis of their observations within academic groups and finally the relationship they established with conceptual referents, were key pieces for the understanding of the phenomenon. and production of arguments based on models of the sciences