O ideal do belo como princípio, meio e fim do ensino-aprendizagem da Física / The ideal of Beauty as a principle, a means and a consummation of the teaching-learning in physics

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

03/03/2011

RESUMO

Among the intents of this work lies the construction of interpretive instruments based on confluences of the thoughts of Nelson Goodman, John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the domain of epistemology, in order to find the results these philosophies yield concerning the liberation of valuable modes of relationship with the lore of science. Such modes thus far have been mostly neglected by science education. Using these instruments allows seeing that--as one of the most characteristic aftermaths that follow from the mounting of current civilization--the public legitimacy of scientific enterprise has been consummated at the price of a squeezing in the ways of seeing science, to the point of blocking the appreciation of its wealth of potential meanings. Nowadays, the transactions of the ordinary person with science go obedient to the command of loud demonstrations of the technique, under the fascination of objects and ways of life that symbolize its successes in manipulation and reproduction. Aligned with this trend, the expectations of modern societies turn more and more to an instruction committed to preparing functional individuals, so as to enable them to carry out objective and efficient implementation of procedures aimed to materialize products and services which stamp market value. This process marks the symbolic realm with the construction of a particular symbol system that, once it is entrenched, removes all traces of experience from the scene of scientific knowledge. For the purpose of restoring the continuity between science and experience, it must be shed light on the fruitful interactions that the singular meanings established in the course of the scientific practice maintain with the abstract systematic structure that emerges as its completed form. In order to fill that gap, the proposed strategy is to articulate a conception of scientific education open to the aesthetic appreciation of symbolic artifacts of science. The transition from one rendering of physics dominated by its technical consequences to another which also grasps its aesthetic modes of working is guided through the analogy which is shown to exist between two processes, namely, one over which the aesthetic vision of an artifact of physics is being established in educational mediations and the course of the appreciation of performances of a piece of music. By taking the route this analogy suggests, a picture of physics teaching as a performance art springs out.

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aesthetics construção do conhecimento construction of knowledge estética física - estudo e ensino formação do indivíduo formation of the individual linguagem científica physics - study and teaching scientific language

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