Teaching to define concepts: An alternative for the Development of Thinking

Abstract

This article presents a validated technique for the definition of school, academic, and applied research concepts, for doctoral training students at our university, who, in addition to adopting or critically evaluating the definitions of expert authors, must be able to express their theoretical position. in “concept definition” mode, of the key terms of your degree thesis and partial assignments. The “RFG technique of three colors” is inspired by the ideology of, among other scientific leaders, Hegel, Vygotsky, Davydov, Bruner, and Wittgenstein; and constitutes a useful resource for the training of critical thinking and scientific argumentation.