Analogies and metaphors on chapters of Modern Physics in textbooks approved by the PNLD 2018

• Autor(a) principal: Kopp, Felipe Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Voltaire de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fisica/article/view/2175-7941.2019v36n1p69

This paper investigates the presence of analogies and metaphors on chapters of Modern Physics in textbooks indicated by the Guia de Livros Didáticos – PNLD 2018. Based on the most current language studies, there is an attempt to establish a conceptual distinction between these two figures of speech in order to a better use on Physics Education. The content analysis proposed by Bardin (2002) is used for data collection and registration and an adapted version of classification created by Curtis and Reigeluth (1984) is used for the classification of the occurrences. The numerical and qualitative data show the opposite characteristics between analogies and metaphors. Both compare familiar or already known information (vehicle) to new information (target), but the analogy does that with things that belong to the same domains while the metaphor does that with things that belong to different ones. Analogies is a useful tool to compare similarities and differences, which is very important to teaching concepts of Modern Physics. On the other hand, metaphors may make comparisons through concrete to abstract concepts, however this is done on a simplest form, hence, it requires more attention by authors of textbooks and teachers who use them.