The social representation built by undergraduates about physics course

Abstract

The physics teaching has been, over the years, conducted in a traditional way and distant from student’s reality. However, the new requirements placed by a  informational and technological society claims a posture change aiming an relationship between school and social world. In this perspective, the actual study look for understand how the licensures from the physics course of the Instituto Federal do Ceará - IFCE represents their training, focusing on diagnosing the main capabilities and lacuna of this course and even, the resizing of obsolete methodological practices and the fostering of new ways of thinking in the physics teaching toward the new paradigms of schooling. Therefore, we resorted to, at theoretical level, the social representations theory and authors such as Santos (2005) and Freire (1996); and, atempirical level, the Free Words Association Technique, united to content analysis. Its is the aim of the actual study to contribute for demythologize the physics as a knowledge restricted to few privileged ones, for the resizing of teaching methodology, as well as of the understand it self about how and for what to teach physics.