A que serve os modelos para a química? Primeiras aproximações a partir da psicologia histórico-cultural e Vasili V. Davidov

Abstract

Models are central to teaching chemistry! We cannot fail to highlight this point, as the elaboration of his teaching pervades, in one way or another, the work with models. However, it is perceived that there is still no solid constitution of a teaching of chemistry that uses models that establish essential relationships to the development of thought from its teaching and, consequently, to a greater appropriation of its content. With that in mind, taking the Soviet psychologist Vasili Vasilovich Davidov as a theoretical basis, Historical-Cultural Psychology and Historical-Dialectical Materialism; In this dissertation, we aimed to investigate the [possible] contributions of the idea of theoretical thinking in Davidov to think about models for teaching chemistry. We understand that Davidov, in his elaboration on the Study Activity, provides elements that allow us to approach chemistry, not yet elaborated in Science Teaching. Therefore, in view of the investigation, the results of this work are systematized and exposed in the form of theses. We chose to bring our results in this way, because the thesis presents a more general and directive character, which is in accordance with the questions that we propose to address here. There will be two central theses: I) Chemistry does not need models because it is abstract; II) Every model is a representation, but not every representation is a model. Additionally, we bring a point of synthesis between these two theses: A path to synthesis: The model is content while it is form.