Revisitando a teoria da relatividade restrita à luz da teoria dos campos conceituais de Vergnaud

Abstract

In this work, a set of activities is suggested, through an activity notebook, with possible situations to be worked through a geometric approach of the Special Theory of Relativity. The set of activities in question was elaborated from the proposition of a theoretical matrix in which the concept of relativistic referential is interpreted as a conceptual field, based in the Theory of Conceptual Fields of Gérard Vergnaud. Through the results suggested by the application of this workbook in a formal educational environment, it was possible to verify the hypothesis that the geometric approach of Special Relativity, with emphasis on Minkowski diagrams, value, in the construction and manipulation of these diagrams, fundamental conceptual aspects of this theory, not treated in traditional approaches. Therefore, the appreciation of these aspects tends to contribute to the construction and/or consolidation of the relativistic region of the Conceptual Profile of the notion of reference, collaborating in this way to overcome epistemological obstacles inherent in learning this theory.