A física como estruturante do conhecimento técnico sob a ótica dos estudantes

Abstract

Discussing the interfaces between scientific education and professional and technological education involves several factors that compose the concrete conditions of teaching and learning activities. With the aim of expand the debate about the interdisciplinarity between the curricular components known as propedeutics and techniques, this paper focuses on the student's perception. The students are essential subjects in the institutional composition and, ultimately, reason for the existence of the educationalinstitutions. Among the several aspects that compose the interactions between scientific education and professional education, the objective of this paper is to present and discuss results of students' perceptions about the content relations of the Physics curricular component in the composition of professional courses. For that, a questionnaire was created, validated and applied for data collection and posterior quantitative analysis; the method adopted was descriptive statistics. The sample consists of 249 students of the second and third years of technical courses integrated to the high school of the IFMG, Campus Ouro Preto (IFMG-OP).