Abstract:
The present work aims to investigate the ways how the concept of force is approached in the discourse of Physics college professors from a public institution in the north of Paraná state, by emphasizing its dimension of historical construction, especially regarding the period between the 17th and 18th centuries. To meet this objective, the assumptions of phenomenological research were adopted in order to find evidence of how it gave rise to the construction of concepts and, indirectly, to explain how and whether the History of Physics is present in its didactic practices. At the end of the analyses, one can find that the version that is succinctly disseminated in most of the conceptions held by the professors refers to an approach directed to Newtonian mechanics, which unduly supersedes the contributions of its predecessors and successors.
Keywords:
Physics teaching; Higher education; History of physics; Phenomenology