Opus alquímico : possíveis reencontros da química com a alquimia na aprendizagem sensível.

Abstract

For many years the alchemy was very present, it was the opus and the transmutation of the matter, discussed from the philosophical conceptions. The discussions about alchemy transcended the matter, something that came from the soul; the mysticism was very wide. Throughout the alchemy’s contribution and the accumulation of information’s from that period that chemistry was considered as science. Nowadays the teaching of natural science, the chemistry subject, is fragmented into the questions involving theory that end up to difficult the understanding and learning’s students because the theory makes hard to approximate the Scientifics concepts from the reality to those ones who only experience a mechanic methodology. The chemicals knowledge and its applications influence directly and indirectly in every day life, however, most of the people do not have full conscience. In this sense, my research consists in problematize chemistry learning sense in an alchemical dimension. As Iam science teacher in 9th grade’s young people and adults education (Ensino de Jovens e Adultos in Brazil) and high school chemistry teacher, I question about the sense of chemistry studies are so hard to the point of being distressing to some students. Which alchemy chemistries learning’s ways, through the sensitive and images, correlate the subjects with the student’s every day life? How do the students close pleasure studying science in their school progress, during the years they are attending school? These are some questions that intrigue me and make me think about how is our scholar system education. Trying to figure out these questions, my main goal is to investigate the alchemy studies, that promoted the chemistry systematization, to constitute a more integrated chemistry learning. The methodology used was qualitative, in which it presents a phenomenological perspective, provocative and attentive to the history of the soul that invents fictions, from the drawings, the narratives that we will provoke in the classroom, registering the material with the field diary, with photos and recorded audios of the lines that emerged from the alchemical process that was activated. To comprehend the results that involve the thoughts, science, the experimentation and learning involving alchemy that promoted the chemistry systematization I researched Bachelard, Jung and Hillman to bring the principle thoughts to think about alchemy learning from imagination perspective. Therefore, the resent study showed that it is possible working with the imaginary, in an alchemy perspective, a new way of thinking and being in the education.