A sinergia entre a quarta comunidade e o CERN (‘Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire’) para a melhoria do ensino de física no nível médio

Abstract

This paper treats the scientific education in general, specially the teaching of physics in Secondary school that notably it is deeply problematic. Several factors are appointed like motivated of this serious problem such as: the insufficient number of teachers, low pay that become uninteresting career, lack of structure at schools, inadequate curriculum, etc. It stands out from all those reasons, the problem of the lack of quality in teaching, it is taught the physics that it doesn‟t go beyond developing of nineteenth century, trying to achieve the minds and the hearts from the concerned students of twenty-first century. Inspired by debates occurred in a round table discussion at XIV EPEF in Maresias in 2012 where discussing the relations, or the lack of them, between the three communities there considered: the research communities in physics, the research in education and the researches in teaching of physics. It seemed to us that this debate should be expanded to accommodate a fourth community- the teachers of physics in secondary school- due to its huge and strategic importance as to the academic degree of the students as to the conscious informed of the society, notably with regard to the ethical values and citizenship. During the developing of this work, we could note that this role of strategic relevance to the scientific development was recognized by CERN (Organisation Europeéne pour la Recherche Nucléare- former Conseil Europeéne pour la Recherche Nucléaire) that created inside the programme called Educational Outreach, the Teacher Programme that involves teachers from secondary school from 21 countries of the Organization providing a very active dialogue between the research community in physics and the fourth community. By means of LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, em Lisboa we could take part in the “Portuguese Language Teachers Programme 2015/School of teachers in CERN in Portuguese Language” held in Geneva which corroborated with the initial ideas of this work. The way to make a significant cognitive gain about the nature of science, certainly it indicates to convergence ideas from the four communities, we believe that there isn‟t a panacea that can solve the whole problem by itself.