THE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION BASED ON BAS VAN FRAASSEN’S FRAMEWORK AND THE ATTRIBUTION OF MEANING TO SCHOOL CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE: A Natureza da representação a partir do referencial de Bas van Fraassen e a atribuição de sentido ao conhecimento químico escolar

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Machado, Juliana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/42326
• topic: Representações; Modelos; Epistemologia

Initially, aspects of the problem of the nature of representation in teaching are presented, highlighting the disconnection between the meanings attributed by teachers and students to representative models of school scientific knowledge, based on examples originating from the teaching of Chemistry. Then, aspects of Bas van Fraassen's pragmatist conception are rescued and discussed. By comparing those examples with categories of thought from this framework, it was possible to show that the challenges that arise in learning chemistry related to representations are not solved by introducing more complex theories and, therefore, “closer to reality”, but constitute inherent challenges. to the representation relationship itself. In particular, it was possible to point out essential constitutive aspects of the representation: its relational character, its intentional character when attributing predicates, its virtuous interruption and the asymmetry in its relationship with the represented. We conclude that a reflection on these aspects can contribute to deepening the understanding of the nature of chemical representations, from the perspective of an approach that aims to prioritize the construction of meaning to chemical knowledge.