CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON ANALOGUE MODELS
Analog Models. Models. Analogies. Refraction vices of the human eye. Science teaching.
This study aimed to analyze how the teaching and learning processes mediated by analog models based on analogies favor the construction of knowledge by high school students, in particular, in the content of Geometrical Optics of Physics. It is included in line IV – Educational Practices and Technologies of the Graduate Program in Technological Education of the Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG). The research followed a qualitative approach and the methodological procedure of action research. It is theoretically supported by the Meaningful Learning proposed by Ausubel and the Formation of the Scientific Spirit as suggested by Bachelard, more specifically in the epistemological obstacles encountered by students in the learning process in Science. This research counted with 14 high school students as collaborators. The activity was developed through a didactic sequence focusing on the construction of analog models to represent the refractive vices of the human eye or ametropias. The data was obtained through two questionnaires which were applied. The first one was registered before the activity and the second one after it. In addition, observation and records were made by the researcher in order to complete the data collected. The results indicate that the activity provided a better understanding of the concepts of refractive vices of human vision, i. e., the analog models built by the students contributed positively to the appropriation of knowledge by the students.