Como o ensino de física e astronomia são influenciados pela ciência e tecnologia

Abstract

This work is divided into two parts, in the first moment we realized a literature review on teaching of Physics and Astronomy to reveal the mutual relationship between them and their interfaces with science and technology. Our goal is to ascertain whether Astronomy has been used as an effective means to stimulate students’ interest in Physics. In a second moment, we carried out a research to verify the perception that the students of the primary and secondary schools of Monte Alegre have on science and technology and how they relate these areas with the Physics and the Astronomy. For the development of the research, we applied a questionnaire with 22 questions to 41 students, of which 24 attend 9◦ years of elementary school and 17 study 3◦ years of high school. Soon after the questionnaire, we held a lecture about the advances of science, to talk about the importance of science and technology in our life, and the main developments occurred due to physics, and, as technological advances allow us to expand knowledge in Astronomy the field. From the analysis of these instruments, we verified that the teaching in the Monte Alegre region is heavily based on traditionalism and ignores the content of Astronomy in both ele mentary and high school. We affirm according to reports of the students themselves in some questions of the questionnaire and from speaks of professors that say there is not “time” to minister all programmatic content. We also see the pessimistic view and/or repudiation of students in relation to Physics because of the mathematical form, as they know it and the ins trumentalist view of perceiving science and technology. The class provided interesting debates and we conclude that the inclusion of astronomy and C&T approach leads to more didactic, viable and fruitful purposes for teaching physics.