LEITE, E. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8252376057653832; LEITE, Everton Cândido.
Resumo:
This study presents the analysis of the different conceptual profiles, regarding the
coloration of the sky presented by students from different periods of the Physics
Undergraduate course at the Teacher Training Center of the Federal University of
Campina Grande, in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba. The notion of Conceptual Profile,
proposed by Mortimer (1995), is inserted in the perspective of discussions of students'
prior conceptions and the idea of conceptual change. Thus, subjects can develop
different conceptual profiles for acting in different contexts. For the development of this
research, the qualitative methodology was adopted for the analysis of the Conceptual
Profile zones on the exposed problematic. In order to know more about the different
Conceptual Profiles of the students of a Physics Undergraduate course, throughout their
academic trajectory, we chose to use an online questionnaire to recognize these profiles.
The questionnaire is composed of four open questions, and was applied to the students
of the Degree in Physics course in different stages of the course. This questionnaire was
applied virtually, using the "Google Forms" platform. The Degree in Physics course had
a total of 146 students enrolled at the time of the research. After the questionnaires were
sent out, 17 questionnaires were answered, thus providing the analysis of the answers
and the formation of four (4) Zones of Conceptual Profiles: Simplistic Notion;
Conceptual Ingenuity; Notion Susceptible to Evolution; Understands the relationship of
the colors of the sky and the Dispersion of Light; Descriptive Analysis of the Images;
Relates the colors of the sky to the Refraction of Light; Knowledge concerning the
Phenomenon; Conception consistent to the Dispersion of Light; Relationship to the
Dispersion of Light; Understanding consistent to the Refraction of Light. By means of a
case study, we analyzed the different conceptual profiles presented by future Physics
teachers, during the different periods of the Physics Undergraduate course, regarding
the coloration of the sky. The study allowed for reflection about the different profiles
built throughout the undergraduate course.