Competencia científica en la enseñanza de las ciencias naturales: reflexión desde la perspectiva del pensamiento complejo.

Abstract Society faces new challenges every day as a consequence of globalization and diverse transformations, where science and technology come together offering alternatives to solve problems of a scientific nature, counting on human resources trained to face life in a scientific way. The objective of this essay is to reflect theoretically on the redirection of teaching in the natural sciences from a linear, Cartesian perspective to a complex paradigmatic approach, whose theoretical support is based on complex thinking. To this end, education plays a relevant role, offering the necessary tools to face diverse situations of its environment. However, the theoretical arguments found in different bibliographic reviews, supported by authors, point out that the teaching of natural sciences is focused on the memorization of concepts, dismissing the importance of the management and application of scientific competences, promoting uncertainty and chaos as an indissoluble part of the natural processes and phenomena that are part of the social context of the students. According to the above, the teaching provided by the teacher represents the tip of the iceberg in this beautiful path that has as its ultimate goal: to enhance in students the acquisition of skills and abilities where the complexity, global, contextual and multidimensional, constitute the thread of the learning process.