%0 Journal Article %T Concepciones sobre la ense£¿anza del profesorado y sus actuaciones en clases de ciencias naturales de educaci¨®n secundaria %A Fern¨¢ndez Nistal %A Mar¨ªa Teresa %A P¨¦rez Ibarra %A Ricardo Ernesto %A Pe£¿a Boone %A Sergio Humberto %A Mercado Ibarra %A Santa Magdalena %J Revista mexicana de investigaci¨®n educativa %D 2011 %I Consejo Mexicano de Investigaci¨®n Educativa, A.C. %X this article identifies science teachers' conceptions of teaching in secondary school, and studies the relation between these conceptions and teachers' actions in the classroom. the information was obtained through a semistructured interview and observations in class. based on the implicit theories of pozo et al. (2006), the teachers' responses to the interview questions, and the teaching behaviors observed, a classification was made of direct, interpretative, and constructive conceptions. most of the participants had interpretative and direct conceptions of teaching, and showed a lack of coherence between the conceptions they presented in the interview and their classroom behavior. %K teachers' beliefs %K teaching %K teaching practice %K science teaching %K secondary education %K mexico. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-66662011000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en