Solving ill-structured problem as a didactical-scientific modeling process in physics education

Abstract

Physics Education researches indicate that getting involved in the process of solving ill-structured problems has the potential to build knowledge, as well as to develop a broader set of skills, cognitive, metacognitive and procedural resources, when compared to the problems that are usually implemented in the context of high school. Ill-structured problems, closer to everyday, academic and professional reality, should be more valued in didactic practices. However, although the literature presents suggestions and guidelines for the implementation of such problems, the few didactic approaches with ill-structured problems have indicated that students' difficulties in facing these problems persist. Associated with this, we have not found a theoretical approach that consistently considers a learning theory and an epistemological vision for solving ill-structured physics problems. Faced with this scenario, the objective of this work is to present a theoretical articulation between the central elements of the process of solving ill-structured problems and Didactical-Scientific Modeling, as a way to assist in the development and implementation of didactic strategies that help in facing ill-structured problems.