O uso do contexto do surgimento do Fundamental Fysiks Group para o debate sobre a natureza da ciência na formação de professores

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the potentiality of the studying the events that occurred in the emergence of the Fundamental Fysiks Group for the debate on the nature of science in the education of physics teachers. With this aim, and based on the historical materialism method, the work begins by presenting the concrete to be researched as the relevance of studying the origin of the Fundamental Fysiks Group for the debate on the nature of science in the education of physics teachers. In its appearance, this broad object presents itself as a complex and chaotic reality, being necessary at first, in order to understand it, to reach the simplest determinations through analytical processes. In a movement of coming and going that is particular to the method, the simplest determinations were being abstracted, without forgetting to always return to the concrete. Initially, it seeks to present which history and philosophy of science are of interest to science teaching and what history and the philosophy of science understand as the nature of science, to then conclude that for educational purposes, certain consensuses about the nature of scientific knowledge can be admitted. Then, the events that occurred during the emergence of the Fundamental Fysiks Group are exposed, choosing to carry out the debate on the nature of science from this study in a didactic intervention. This intervention took place in the discipline of Teaching Practice III, of the night course of Licentiate in Physics at UFG, and, through this activity, an attempt was made to appropriate the reality that was presented. In this process, three categories were extracted: difficulties with the classification and definition of deformed views of science; possibilities of deconstructing the deformed views of science; relationship between science and other forms of knowledge. Finally, it is concluded that understanding the origin of the Fundamental Fysiks Group allows an expanded and critical view of the nature of science in the process of training physics teachers, most notably in the deconstruction of deformed views of science and that this study provides historical and philosophical material for teachers and future physics teachers so that, in the face of questions from their students about “quantum mysticism”, they can position themselves on the subject.