A motivação dos alunos em estudar Física: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

This work aims to verify how students identify with Physics and what are the possible motivating agents that make them interested in studying this discipline. Motivation can happen in several aspects, be it emotional, involving teacher-student, or through meaning, involving student-discipline. Motivation is necessary for the student to feel attracted to learn. The aim of this research is to investigate the factors that contribute to motivate students to study physics and those that are still considered barriers. To know the production on the subject, a literature review was carried out in five journals in the field of Science Teaching using the keywords: Motivation, Affection, Problem and Context. To produce the data, an online questionnaire was applied to classes in the first, seconds and third years of high school at a state public school in the metropolitan region of Curitiba. As this is an exploratory work, through a questionnaire, the students’ opinion on motivating ways to study physics was sought. The questions sought to investigate how students studied Science, issues related to forms of motivation and how they would feel motivated to study, as well as what the motivational agents would be. Analyzing the students’ responses, it was clear that the interaction between them and the teachers is very important. It also showed that mathematics, in the way it is used in the field of physics, is an element that hinders learning. The use of other ways of teaching was reported by most respondents, as well as the use of experiments, simulators and other means that are not just lectures.