History of a teaching experience: the case of the subject Concepts of Physics D of UFBA

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze historically the teaching experience, carried out in the Physics Course of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), involving the curricular component Concepts of Physics D, called previously Basic Physics IV, which has optics and elements of modern physics as its syllabus. This experience, which began in 1999, constitutes an example of incorporating the history of science into science teaching or, more specifically, to the teaching basic university physics. Initially, we discussed the main difficulties encountered by teachers to teach this curricular component and also how they were faced, over time; and then discuss how their programmatic content was effectively worked in the classroom, ie how the activities were carried out, what material was used and how the students interacted with that content  material. Finally, we present the view of the students about the approach used in the mentioned curricular component.