Teaching of Physics in the Specialist Officer Formation Courses:

the potential of the activities, under an investigative perspective, mediated by the information and communication technologies (TICs)

Abstract

This article is an analysis of the use of the Information and Communications Technologies (TICs) as tools for teaching of Physics under an investigative perspective, and of the viability of their application in the Specialist Officer Formation Courses (CFOE). We performed a search in scientific publications that could identify the different possibilities of use of the TICs s in the processes of teaching and learning Physics, as well as the tendencies that arose, analyzing the scope, the pertinence and the importance given to the subject by prominent researches in the field of teaching of Physics in Brazil, with the goal of implementing this methodology in the different Physics disciplines taught at the CFOE. In order to do so, we performed an analysis of the articles published in a special issue of Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Cad. Bras. Ens. Fís., v. 29, Especial issue 2). As the main result, we highlight the potential that the TICs have of contributing to the development of teaching strategies and activities, calling attention to the fact that, even though a significant portion of the analyzed articles had the goal of evaluating instructional materials that make use of the TICs in Physics classes, these activities are being established as an important object of study of the recent researches in this field, showing a high potential for the development of teaching activities under a perspective of scientific investigation that can be used in the Physics disciplines taught at the CFOE, fulfilling the current existing needs.