Astroparamo. Science Club of Planetary Habitability and Climate Change

Abstract

We introduce Astropáramo: an initiative of science clubs in rural educational institutions in very remote regions of the Santurbán páramo. This initiative uses a mobile laboratory of didactic experiments initially developed by the University of Munich within the project "Climate change: understanding and acting". Taking advantage of the innate charisma for stars in the inhabitants of the mountainous areas of Colombia, we use the teaching of astronomy as a bridge to recognize our planet as the only home and understand the science and importance of climate change. The first version was developed with three educational institutions in the paramo area. The students had synchronous encounters with an instructor via WhatsApp: the only means that the pandemic allowed the connection of students in remote areas of the country. Thanks to this medium, the young people could share their experiences and doubts they encountered in the development of the experiments. Thus, despite the adverse conditions of the pandemic, favorable spaces were generated for debate and the construction of knowledge, demonstrating that science is inclusive, fun, and can be available to everyone.

La investigación como estrategia pedagógica: una alternativa latinoamericana a la educación STEAM

“…El impacto del programa no solo ha sido en términos de beneficiarios, sino también como referente de experiencias territoriales, es el caso de Investigadores por Naturaleza, programa de apropiación social de la ciencia en contextos educativos rurales del páramo de Santurbán, en Santander, Colombia, durante el período 2020-2022, que tómo como referencia elementos de la IEP (Correa-Delgado y Prado-Blanco, 2022;García-Sánchez et al, 2023;Prado-Blanco et al, 2021;Villarreal-Gómez et al, 2022). Además, se encuentra el programa Generación Conciencia, que lleva a cabo el programa Ondas y la IEP en Santander desde el año 2014 incluyendo a jóvenes investigadores y semilleros de investigación universitarios, llamando a este encuentro Comunidades del saber (Generación ConCiencia, s.f.…”