The public sector in the Didactic of Science in Spain: CSIC and FECY

Abstract

In Spain, Law of Science, Technology and Innovation 14/2011, establishes the command of Public Administrations to promote conducive activities to the scientific and technological culture improvement. An exploratory-descriptive study is undertaken. In order to investigate its relationship with the didactics of science, its statutes and its latest published annual reports have been accessed. The work of two agents of the institutional public sector in the didactics of educational science has been analyzed. On the one hand, the CSIC, a public research organization that designs and executes scientific dissemination projects with a wide variety of topics and multiple formats within and outside the research and teaching centers. Also the FECYT, foundation of the public sector, which promotes an annual call for aid for the promotion of scientific, technological and innovative culture and a program of scientific culture aimed at young people. Both elaborate teaching didactic material for the classroom. For all these reasons, they constitute a sign of the commitment of the Public Administration to complement in Spain the regulated education in science.