Physics concepts in basic education and academic: approximation and great distances. / Conceitos de física na educação básica e na academia: aproximações e distanciamentos.

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2007

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This work, together with two others in the areas of biology and chemistry, has the objective of verifying the approximation between teaching contents in the natural sciences, specifically physics, of grade school and high school textbooks and reference science. Representing reference science, textbooks from baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in physics at the University of São Paulo were used. It is also possible using this proposal to evaluate the teaching content of science texts as a function of their distance from the contents of reference science resulting from didactic transposition. Some central concepts of physics were selected for analysis, as well as general principles and the concepts of energy, force and field, common to both elementary and high school teaching: weight and mass, heat and temperature; load. These concepts were analyzed in six collections of grade school science teaching materials (two from primary series and four from junior high school materials). These contents were compared with the approach developed in reference science texts to verify the conceptual accuracy in the perspective of approximation between school and scientific knowledge. Preliminary results indicated that the texts used at the grade school and junior high school levels approach the contents from a perspective with the greatest number of distances from reference physics, reinforced by todays laxity. Because the majority of primary and secondary school teachers are not specifically trained in sciences, they have difficulty identifying these aspects. In high school texts, initial results showed a greater approximation with reference physics books and their characteristic rigor. However, when these results are compared with the research presented in articles on the teaching of physics, even guaranteeing this approximation, there are still problems in the teaching and learning process that should be investigated, like the development of professors in the sciences.

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reference science high school physics textbook science teaching textbook teaching physics ensino de física livro de física para ensino médio livro didático de ciências ciência de referência evaluation of textbooks avaliação do livro didático

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