Ensino de física na educação de jovens e adultos: potencialidades do uso de atividades experimentais

Abstract

The difficulties encountered in teaching Physics due to a traditional educational practice, observed both in the undergraduate and in the teaching practices in regular high school classes and in the Education of Young and Adults (EJA), was the motive to the development of experimental practical activities. These activities had like objective to promoting a dynamic, broad and objective understanding and interrelationship of the concepts envisaged for this stage of schooling. In order to reach this objective, the teaching practices traditionally applied in Physics teaching in the EJA and in Regular High School was analyzed, analyzing the positive and negative aspects of these practices and evaluating the difficulties placed in concluding the expected contents and a pedagogical relationship with the students. In a second moment, and in a central way, a proposal of experimental activities related to the theoretical classes of Physics developed, in order to promote an articulated formation with the daily life of the students. After the development of the activities, we sought to evaluate the students' understanding of the concepts studied and how they established the relationships between the concepts worked in a theoretical way and through the experimental activities. For an evaluation, a questionnaire applied exploring, in general terms, the contents developed in the experimental practices. From the analysis of the answers obtained, there were advances in the understanding and interrelation of the developed physics contents. It is should be emphasized that, in order for the proposed activity to reach its objectives, it is necessary to commit the students to the proposed experiments and a constant and active participation. In addition, the development of these activities should be properly adapted to the reality in which the teacher is an inserted.