The teaching the Quantum Mechanics in high school through scientific abstraction present in Physics Literature interface

Abstract

This article proposes to investigate the teaching of Quantum Mechanics in high school through scientific abstraction created in physics and literature interface and is the result of the dissertation research present in Lima (2014). The relationship between physics and literature is held for the purpose of being used as a tool for teaching and learning physics, especially for providing the development of scientific abstraction. The formation of scientific concepts and the importance of the word are analyzed in Vygotsky, in the formation of pseudoconcepts and development of abstraction, together with the contribution of semiotic representations of Raymond Duval. The development of Quantum Mechanics concepts occurred through two readings. The first reading took place about the eighteenth chapter of the Age of Extremes by Hobsbawm, aiming to insert philosophical, historical, political and social information on the advent of Quantum Physics. The second reading took place through reading the first three chapters of Alice in Quantum Country by Gilmore, targeting the physical concepts of Quantum Mechanics. The data collected from the students after the reading and the analysis of these point the physical-literature interface as a promising didactic alternative for the teaching of Quantum Mechanics in particular and for the teaching of physics in general.

Keywords

• mecânica quântica
• física e literatura
• abstração
• conceitos físicos