THE IMAGETIC DISCOURSE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
GESTURES, MATERIALS AND THEIR MEANINGS IN THE TRANSPOSITION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Keywords: Imagetic Discourse; Semiotics; Didactic Transposition; Physics Teaching.
ABSTRACT
We seek in this work an understanding about the constitution and use of the Imagetic Discourse that is developed by the teacher in physics classrooms. This theme receive its motivation of observations accumulated during the teaching experience, it is also from these experiences that the questions related to the divergent interpretations between students and teachers about the meanings attributed to the images in situations of the teaching of Physics arise. In philosophical terms, the images can become obstacles to scientific development, if not understood their role in this process, which calls for specific learning about their functions. In this sense, meanings constructed using images have been a growing target of discussions in various areas of knowledge, and here we are dedicated to the case of Physics Teaching, in a discussion about the construction of meanings through the signs that also contributes to give a glimpse above the theme in other areas of the teaching of the sciences in general. The discussions that we weave are based on our appropriation of the Semiotics theory proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, who has a wide typology of signs and their interrelations, permeated by the ideas of Chevallard about the Didactic Transposition, with respect to the action of the teacher as agent of this transformation in the classroom and also, permeated by Bachelard's concerns about the development of the "scientific spirit". Analyzing events from our previous experience in teaching, we focus on the theme to indicate directions regarding the use of Imagetic Discourse in Physics teaching, contributing both to research and to practices in Education, turning our gaze to the being and to the practical of a teacher, evidencing the need for a formative track that is capable of amplifying the potential of the educator, facilitating its transit in the multimodal reality of nowadays, accompanying the changes of society with clever look and mind. Among the expected results are the indication of elements of the constitution and use of the Imaginary Discourse that establish bridges rather than barriers to the development of scientific thought and the understanding of science itself. In addition to contributing with the use of the Peircean Semiotic theory as a powerful instrument to analyze the teaching activity.