Experimento didático formativo: a formação do pensamento teórico a partir das relações nucleares sobre o conceito energia

Abstract

The educational product, “Formative didactic experiment: the formation of theoretical thinking based on nuclear relations on the concept of energy”, is the result of master's research entitled “The development of the concept of energy by students in the final years of elementary school based on references theorists of developmental didactics”, whose general objective was to understand the signs of the formation of theoretical thinking in students in the 8th year of Elementary School, based on the process of appropriating the concept of energy, in the context of developmental didactics. This educational product is a formative didactic experiment (EDF), a proposal of teaching organization, the result of theoretical-methodological research supported by the perspective of theoretical references of developmental didactics. The formative didactic experiment (EDF) aims to materialize a teaching proposal for the final years of Elementary School in the area of ​​Natural Sciences on the concept of energy, based on the theoretical references of developmental didactics. This experiment is the unfolding of the interrelationship of philosophical (historical-dialectic materialism), psychological (historical-cultural/activity theory) and didactic-pedagogical (developmental didactics) aspects. The theoretical framework addressed in the experiment is a conception of critical school education based on the contradictions emanating from human social practice.