Thinking and acting ‘outside the box’: digital game and production of pedagogical affectations in teacher training

Abstract

Abstract In this article we track the effects of incorporating digital games to the initial teachers training in Physics during a course at a Brazilian public university. To this purpose, we used the production of empirical data from field observations and the preparation of reports by students during our Research-Action. We systematized our sources of information using open coding in the ATLAS.ti software and this result was discussed under the contributions of the Actor-Network Theory of Bruno Latour and collaborators. In our analysis, we identified the affectation of the pedagogical meanings of future teachers related to digital games and their incorporation into a proposal for teaching Physics.

Keywords

• Physics teaching
• Higher education
• Digital games
• Initial teacher training
• Action research
• Actor-network theory