Scientific rationality levels shared by future teachers in physics at the context of a discipline about the STS movement

Abstract

In this paper we aimed to study the construction process on comprehension about science by undergraduate students from a physics teachers’ education program, in the light of the STS perspective. Founded on a concept of scientific rationality, which represents a way of looking at science without detaching it from the context of STS relations, and assuming Bakhtin's thought as theoretical-methodological reference, once the discourse established among students along the course that served as research context was the focus of the analysis. The bakhtinian analysis was carried out articulated with a Simple Correspondence Analysis, in a mixed method framework. Through the analysis we were able to identify advances in students' comprehension about science compared to the beginning of the course and, mainly, understand aspects that shaped these students' conceptions, such as the influence of the teachers' trainer and the didactic manual.

Keywords

• movimento cts
• formação de professores de física
• bakhtin.