HISTORICAL-CRITICAL DIDACTIC PRINCIPLES FOR TEACHING ELECTROCHEMISTR
Teaching Electrochemistry; Didactic Principles, Historical-Critical Pedagogy.
To think about didactic principles for teaching enhances teaching practices, as it makes it possible to overcome teaching practices that focus solely on the step-by-step learning. The use of principles allows the teacher to think about what to teach, how to teach and who to teach. In this sense, based on Historical-Dialetic Materialism (MHD) and Historical-Critical Pedagogy (PHC), we intend, in this dissertation, to develop and discuss didactic principles that can guide the teaching of electrochemistry from a historical-critical perspective. This is a theoretical research based on MHD and PHC, with some contributions from Historical-Cultural Psychology. In this way, a historical analysis was made, regarding the modern constitution of electrochemistry, so that, through the analysis of the historical needs highlighted and based on the theoretical foundations adopted, we could elucidate what is essential for the teaching of electrochemistry, contributing to a training omnilateral human aspect of the student. In this way, we formulated two didactic principles. the first refers to the concepts of oxidation and reduction as a framework for understanding redox reactions, which are the basis for understanding electrochemical phenomena. The second approaches electrochemical devices and their representations, discussing the importance of representation and its different modes for teaching electrochemistry. At the conclusion, we emphasize that these principles have the main function of guiding pedagogical work without proposing to present recipes on how to teach, since teaching methods vary
according to the singularities of each student, classroom and school.