Laboratory practices: the anteroom to reality

Abstract

Laboratory practices are a productive activity to learn how to do, reason, interact, debate, share ideas, views, and of course, be able to transform reality. Laboratory practices constitute a mere approach to the reality that the future renewable energy engineer will find and constitute an open route between theory and practice so that through experimentation, theory can be proven or, on the contrary, rejected. This essay presents a small reflection on the importance of laboratory practices and the role of teachers in their development. Finally, it describes part of the experience as a teacher conducting lab practices ant its different impacts on graduate students.