Conceptual development about electromagnetism in secondary education Daniel Trugillo Martins Fontes

Abstract

It is well known that electromagnetism is not completely understood by students. This paper presents a review of different methodologies found in the research literature to promote students’ conceptual development in electromagnetism. Then it discusses a fundamental concern for planning of teaching approaches to this topic. This theoretical research goes towards enhancing our understanding for planning empirical work in teaching electromagnetism. The hypothesis is that in order to promote students’ theoretical understanding teachers should let pupils to active in the learning process. We use Davydov 1998 as a theoretical basis for motivating this hypothesis.