Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (Jan 2012)
FUNDAMENTOS TEÓRICOS DO PROCESSO DE FORMAÇÃO DE CONCEITOS E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES PARA O ENSINO E APRENDIZAGEM DE QUÍMICA
Abstract
The problematic of the concepts formation process finds explanation in the several philosophical currents, among which the empiricist and the dialectical- materialistic can be mentioned. The former believes that the concepts formative scheme must be supported by the sensorial experience and by the object representation capacity, while the second gives great importance to the historically built knowledge, highlighting the aspects related to its antogenesis as well as to its phylogenesis. In this direction, the present work aims to contribute to the research in chemical education, as it searches an approximation between the psychological-philosophical and the didactic-pedagogic investigation, particularly in relation to the study of the scientific concepts development on teaching and learning.