Emotions, Feelings and Conceptualizations in Physics Didactic

MARÍA RITA OTERO; FANARO, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES

Science Education Research in South and Latin America.

Kenneth Tobin & Wolff-Michael Roth. Sense Publishers B.V

Año: 2020; p. 1 - 15

In this chapter we propose the bases of a Didactics of Sciences that takesinto account the emotions, feelings and reasoning in the reconstruction of adomain of scientific knowledge. The ideas of Humberto Maturana (1984, 1990,1991, 1995, 2001) and the developments of Antonio Damasio (1994, 2005) areused, which offer neurobiological support to the relationship between emotions,actions, feelings and reasoning. The theory of conceptual fields of GérardVergnaud (1990) is adopted as a theory of cognitive development to study theprocess of conceptualization in a certain domain of knowledge. Finally wepresent the example of a didactic sequence to teach the foundations of theQuantum Mechanics for high school student, which has been designed andimplemented by using the didactic principles proposed.