Curricular innovation in physics: didactical transposition of the modern theories and the survival of knowledge

• Grant number: 08/10470-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2009
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Mauricio Pietrocola Pinto de Oliveira
• Grantee: Mauricio Pietrocola Pinto de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Associated researchers: Cibelle Celestino Silva ; Elio Carlos Ricardo ; Marcelo Alves Barros
• Associated research grant(s): 11/11471-9 - The introduction of Modern and Contemporary Physics in pre-university level: research and curricular innovation contexts in Germany, AV.EXT; 10/01388-4 - From manual analyze to analyze and interpretation of qualitative data by informatics' system, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/05498-7 - Curricular innovation and the management of didactic-pedagogical risks in science teaching, BE.PQ; 12/19386-3 - The use of computer simulations in Particle Physics Teaching in Secondary School, BP.DR; 12/17423-9 - Modern and Contemporary Physics topics in the teacher training through the method peer instruction, BE.PQ; + associated scholarships 11/20172-5 - Neuroscience and Education: the role of emotion in the acceptance of scientific explanations and the influence of emotional factors in the acceptance of ontology-based entities/concepts of Modern Physics., BP.PD; 11/24141-7 - Teaching topics of modern physics: a paternship between Science Center and School, BP.IC; 11/04490-7 - Relativity in High School using a teaching-learning sequence, BP.MS; 10/19276-8 - The structural role of mathematics in physical thought and implications for the teaching and learning of physics, BP.DR; 10/16843-9 - Curricular innovations in physics teaching: Investigating a partnership between teachers and a science center, BP.DR; 10/16333-0 - Characterization of Verbal Barriers in the Teaching of Modern and Contemporary Physics, BP.PD; 09/15750-0 - The role of motivational beliefs in teacher education on the inclusion of topics of modern and contemporary physics in the classroom, BE.PQ - associated scholarships

Abstract

The project researches the process of school knowledge production related to modern and contemporaries Physics. The adopted framework is the didactics of sciences in the French tradition, in particular of the Didactic Transposition. We intend to develop theoretical and methodological knowledge able to characterize the process of didatictization of school knowledge in the perspective of curricular innovation. Besides theoretical investigation, we aim at developing, analyzing and validating teaching learning sequences (TLS) on modern and contemporary physics topics. Pedagogical and methodological barriers are also investigated for characterizing the process of contents knowledge. This project will use data taken in class room real conditions. (AU)