A LITERATURE REVIEW ON APPLIED PHYSICS IN MEDICINE IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING
This paper derives from an extensive review of literature on physics applied to medicine in 41 journals CAPES Qualis A1, A2, and B1, 15 were Brazilian and 26 international ones, between the years 2000 to 2012. Such review showed that this research area is underexplored since only 51 papers approa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Investigações em Ensino de Ciências |
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| Online Access: | http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID383/v20_n1_a2015.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper derives from an extensive review of literature on physics applied to medicine in 41
journals CAPES Qualis A1, A2, and B1, 15 were Brazilian and 26 international ones, between the
years 2000 to 2012. Such review showed that this research area is underexplored since only 51
papers approached this subject, 24 in Brazilian journals and 27 in international ones. None of them
used an epistemological framework and only one was based on a learning theory. Most of these
articles (29) were written by professionals that were not related to the education area, which might
explain the observed lack of theoretical and epistemological frameworks. Physics applied to
medicine offers a large potential for the teaching of physics since health situations might be used to
help students add more meanings to physical concepts. Thus, additional studies based on learning
theories and epistemological views of science are needed and their focus should be on applied
research so as to involve the production of potentially meaningful materials to help students achieve
meaningful learning in physics. |
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| ISSN: | 1518-8795 1518-8795 |