Mercè del Barrio Arranz

Associate Lecturer in Science Education, Department of Specific ​​Didactics at the Universitat de Lleida.

Professor of Secondary Education, Department of Education, specializing in Biology and Geology.

Degree in Biology by the Universitat de Barcelona (1985) and Master's Degree in Educational Research by the Universitat de Lleida (2012).

mbarrio@didesp.udl.cat
mbarrio@xtec.cat
Biography

She has worked as a Secondary School Teacher since 1986, professor and tutor of Pedagogical Aptitude Course and then at Master in Teacher Training since 1993. Member and Coordinator of the ICE-UdL Tutoring Team from 1989 to 2001.

At the High School Guindàvols has held several positions: Head of the Experimental Sciences Department, Head of the Biology Seminar, Tutor, Coordinator of Health Education, etc. ...

Currently, still developing her work teaching, especially aimed at teaching scientific thinking and research, with the use of tools that promote reflection and construction of scientific thought collaboratively.

She has won different prizes for the supervision of research projects, the most notable being the Young Research Award of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Young Researchers Contest, the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, the awards for baccalaureate research projects of the University of Lleida and the Xavier Domingo Award (UB). She has also received several recognitions with high school students in the Geology Olympics, the Biology Olympics and an Agri-food and Forestry Olympiad.

"Science has a social and collective character, evidenced not only by the history of knowledge that we intend to improve, but also fundamentally by the fact that dialogue, debate, contrast, reasoning, criticism, responsibility, ... Science should be communicated, it is a human activity at the service of the community. " Anna Gené