The analysis of the construction of redox reactions content in basic education textbooks

• Grant number: 17/12951-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: June 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Carmen Fernandez
• Grantee: Anike Araujo Arnaud
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07937-8 - Redoxome - Redox Processes in Biomedicine, AP.CEPID

Abstract

The textbook has kept a prominent position as a disseminator of knowledge and teachers often use it as the main guide for their lesson plans. The main objective of the research is to analyze how the textbooks of elementary school and high school chemistry construct concepts related to redox processes in order to infer how they relate to the alternative conceptions of students reported in the literature. Thus, it is intended to describe and analyze the evolution of the oxidation content in Brazilian Basic Education textbooks currently evaluated by the government program - PNLD. This is a qualitative research that uses content analysis from pre-existing categories in the literature. At the end of the research it is sought to know how the content evolution of redox process occurs in textbooks, and how it influences students' alternative conceptions. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ARNAUD, Anike Araujo. Analysis of the construction of the content of redox reactions in basic education textbooks.. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) São Paulo.