Teaching of the Seismic Method of Prospecting: New Pedagogic Conceptions

Abstract

Presently article the main results of the work of bring up to date of the subject "Seismic prospecting" are exposed, that integrates the program of the Master of Applied Geophysics of the Department of Geosciences of the High Polytechnic Institute José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae, carried out as part of the systematic activity dedicated to guarantee the modernity of the program of studies that carries out the Academic Committee. In relation to that exposed, the main objective of the work that sustains this publication, was to revise the current didactic of the teaching of this geophysical method. In the mark of this activity, numerous consultations were carried out on the topic some of which are referred in the article. The result of the made work, helps to modernize the theoretical contents and the bibliographical support for the teaching of this subject that is imparted so much in Cuba as abroad. The conclusion more important that arrives in the work, consists in that the process educational should be directed to try to center more the learning in the students demanding of them a bigger protagonism in the same one.