Experimentando e descobrindo: a contribuição de uma oficina para despertar alunos de nível médio para as dimensões da óptica como disciplina e campo de pesquisa

Abstract

This work deals with the planning, application and analysis of a workshop proposal for the teaching of geometric optics and physical optics. This workshop carried out with students from a second year high school class from a public school in the central region of Curitiba. Taking as a reference instruments and technological artifacts, the objective was to arouse students' interest in scientific research and at the same time, the practice of identifying the contents of the field of optics addressed in the room and are present in their daily life. Among the activities of the workshop, scientific articles, software, online simulation applications and experimented experiments were analyzed for each subject treated, with a view on how to go through three spheres of the saber of the theory of Didactic Transposition of Chevallard. For each selected theme was found, planned from Three Pedagogical Moments proposed by Delizoicov, Angoti and Pernambuco (2002). The meetings were held with the material and personal assistance of the students chapter of the OSA (The Optical Society), which is a reference not in the field of optics and photonics. The workshop provided students with the opportunity to get in touch with experimental sets of physics and also the opportunity to interact with UTFPR undergraduate and graduate researchers and professors. The results indicate that after the students' workshops they were able to identify the physical phenomena in a scientific article about fiber optic sensing, which is under way as reference as five rules of Didactic Transposition proposed by Astolfi (1997). More than this, an organization from Three Pedagogical Moments was an efficient strategy so that the students could identify an application of the physical phenomena studied in the room in the objects and instruments of the day to day. It was noticed during how workshops that are competitors of the research show themselves more disposed to the study of the discipline presenting greater engagement without recognition and identification of the contents of the Physics. That is surround, not only not field of the optics, but also it is not what is more part of the content of their experiential universe. This change in attitude was maintained even after the meetings were closed by messages.