Análise da história do Efeito Fotoelétrico em livros didáticos de Física para graduação

Abstract

Currently, much has been discussed about the presence and importance of the History of Science (HC) in teaching physics. Associado a essa premissa, temos visto uma crescente produção de trabalhos acadêmicos, na qual se tem enfatizado uma abordagem histórica e filosófica inserida em conteúdos dessa disciplina. It is clear, however, that some of these jobs do not come to the teacher, leaving them at the mercy of distorted stories and / or simplified, present in most textbooks (LD), which ends up reinforcing some known scientific myths, transmitting false historical concepts to students and teachers. So, considering the importance of HC, we highlight the importance of examining the presence of this interrelationship in Physics textbooks for higher education by checking whether or not a historical proper transpositions on the photoelectric effect and how these materials, which They aim to train the teacher present the historical context of the phenomenon in question. Analysis and discussion of the results presented here should be based on some criteria that take into account historical aspects of the phenomenon as well as science, noting the presence of scientific myths and distorted bibliographic reports on the scientists involved.