Confluência teórica-experimental no estudo do magnetismo: uma proposta de ensino por abordagem com base na construção de motores elétricos

Abstract

This dissertation is part of a research project that seeks a teaching strategy based on the shared exposition of ideas, aiming to correlate the conceptual domain and practical activities – grounded on the creation of experiments. The core of this work is reflected in the development of an educational product whose purpose is to boost the teaching of magnetism in high school courses, while also highlighting its implications in modern technology, highlighting its use in the construction of electric motors. That task was based on the writing of a textbook, given the concern to subsidize instructional alternatives that can highlight the student’s position in the validation process and justification of knowledge. We based this research from the liberating and problematizing Freirean education and, when dealing with the application and preparation of material instructional, we used the Vygostskyan conception as a theoretical reference, since the pedagogical counterpart resulting from the use of any teaching methodologies in the school environment must consider the social context experienced by students, enabling ensuring that their view of reality allows them to assimilate technical and scientific definitions necessary to understand the content to which they are being exposed. We got as a result the real perception that it is possible to create a teaching instrument that allows a symbiosis between the experiments and the content covered, as well as developing complementary materials relevant to the development of the application. We observed equally the strength of the strategy used, through the interest and engagement of students in relation to the proposed activities, taking into account the quick and precise form of their interactions with definitions when approached in a mutual interaction between theory and experimental practice.