Física Moderna e Contemporânea e a Saúde: uma proposta envolvendo energia nuclear e radioatividade na formação inicial de professores de física

Abstract

The insertion of Modern and Contemporary Physics (FMC) in High School (IN) supported by researchers from the School of Sciences and Physical Education is linked to a concern with the initial training and continuing education. In this paper, we present results of research through an undergraduate Supplementary Discipline (DCG), the initial training of teachers, aiming at achieving the contents of FMC Health and cross-cutting theme in the planning of teaching undergraduates in physics. The implementation of this discipline occurred in the 2nd half of 2011, the degree course in Physics UFSM. To produce this DCG was made a research on the topic Radioactivity and Nuclear Energy (EN / Rad) in major journals and conferences in the area of Science Education and Physical Education in the period 2005 to 2010. The results of this investigation, which have focused on the proposed training for the classroom, pointed a small number of implementations. We also carried out an analysis of the curriculum, the graduate courses in Physics at the federal universities of RS, especially UFSM, regarding the relationship of the disciplines of the grid that addressed the conceptual and procedural contents on the subject EN / Rad. In the analysis of documents were used content analysis procedures. The results of this analysis, from the perspective of National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) for courses in Physics, presented a temporal mismatch between these disciplines with differing emphasis. In this sense, the DCG has come to contribute to the Initial Training for the elaboration of didactic plans, relating the theme EN / Rad and Health, along activities for discussion and didactic plans, results pointing to the levels of coordination between these two themes. The main result was presented in planning the sequence and importance given to the Health theme in these relationships, demonstrating that the Health theme is used as an illustration, usually at the end of the planning, configuring itself as a weak link.