The programme’s mission is to provide education and training on advanced research in didactics of the experimental sciences and establish close links between research and educational practice in science at all levels of education (infant, primary, secondary, upper secondary and university). It covers specific fields of study related with this area (health education, environmental education, education for sustainability, CTS, scientific literacy, STEM, school science, etc.).However, in addition to formal education, it also covers other areas of educational action: museums, nature classrooms, hospital classrooms, prison programmes, advertising campaigns, scientific communication and outreach, education in companies, and so on.It therefore covers a huge field that poses an infinite number of research problems, and requires the participation of specialists from a variety backgrounds.

This doctoral programme is aimed at future research professionals and teachers who want to facilitate the transfer of research to educational centres and non-formal education settings.

The Doctoral Programme in Didactics of the Experimental Sciences is offered as a joint programme by the University of Girona, the University of Almería, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Alicante, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the University of Cádiz, the University of Córdoba, the University of Jaén, the University of Murcia (coordinator); the University of Malaga, the University of Santiago de Compostela, the University of Zaragoza and the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

This joint or ‘inter-university’ character offers the possibility of participating in a broad academic community with education and training opportunities directed by specialists from different universities and facilitating joint thesis management within an organised collaborative framework.

Line 1: Research in teacher training from the didactics of the experimental Sciences perspective

Tutors: Dr. Jaume Ametller Leal, Dr. Marta Gual Oliva

Line 2: Design, implementation and evaluation of proposals for teaching and learning in experimental sciences

Tutors: Dr. Jaume Ametller Leal, Dr. Marta Gual Oliva

The Doctoral Programme is governed by Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, which establishes the organisation of official doctoral studies programmes.The access requirements are those set out in this Royal Decree, and they can be consulted at the following web address www.udg.edu/doctorat/acces.

The entry profiles for students on this doctoral programme are:

a) Students with a science or engineering background who hold a bachelor's or pre-EHEA degree, a master in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (specialising in Physics and Chemistry, Biology and Geology) or another master's degree related to the programme, who wish to major in the field of educational research into the didatics of experimental sciences.

b) Students who have graduated with a degree in primary school teaching and a master's degree in education and who wish to pursue a research specialisation in experimental science teaching.

Doctoral theses read in the programme

Doctoral theses read in the area