Hacia la conceptualización del pensamiento tecnológico en educación y tecnología: comprensión de un concepto

This article seeks to present the conceptual and theoretical framework of research being done as a Inter institutional Ph.D. thesis in Education at the Universities of Valle, Distrital and National Pedagogical of Bogota - Colombia. The overall objective is to build the concept of technological thinking and its characteristics in terms of attributes. The concept of Technological Thought operationalizes to design a survey instrument to assess the extent to which an academic community of teachers, students and engineers have the mental representation, and in some way contribute to the recruitment companies in technology projects. With this objective, the aim is to bridge the conceptual gap that exists in the speech of the Ministry of Education refers to education in technology and the theoretical that is global, which brings about some vague concept approximations. Furthermore it should be noted that the breadth of study is micro-sociological perspective. As to its character, the research will be directed from a qualitative hermeneutic.