Ciência contemporânea na formação de professores : o caso dos fractais em uma perspectiva Kellyana

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate, in a class of future teachers of UFRPE, studying the discipline: "Fundamentos e Vivências em Práticas Interdisciplinares", which the conditions, obstacles and possibilities, so that the contemporary science contributes by through the training of teachers for the necessary renewal of science education. For that, we turn to the case of fractals, taking as a basis the Theory of Personal Constructs of George Kelly (1963), more specifically, the Cycle of Experience. The interlocution was structured in five stages through which students had the opportunity to anticipate and invest in building an interdisciplinary and complex thinking and later confront the new information gained from their preconceptions about the relationship between concept of fractals, the emerging paradigm and the traditional paradigm, with the possibility to modify the preconceptions. Data analysis allowed the following conclusion: the traditional and modern approach, the mathematical rigor of students and predominantly classic relations between the concept and adaptation to the current world have been enriched by a posture in which the dialogue with the uncertainty favors the development of knowledge and thinking. And besides, that is from more complex relationships that stands the perception of interdependence as well as the ideas of contemporary science.