Revisão no Campo: O Processo de Ensino-Aprendizagem dos Conceitos Ácido e Base entre 1980 e 2014

Abstract

Acid and Base are very old concepts, whose origin intertwine with Chemistry’s itself, and for which, through the ages, were proposed many new theorizations. This article presents a review on the approach on acids and bases in national and international journals classified in the higher range of Qualis in the areas of Teaching and Education. Therefore, there was a selection of papers that approach the teaching and learning of this concepts in sixteen journals dated between 1980 and 2014, categorizing them by content analysis. The results show that each journal possesses a style on publishing, realizing that Brazilian journals focus on experimental proposals, while the others show bigger diversity on didactic approach. However, a shared aspect between the journals is the prevalence of articles regarding the Arrhenius or Bronsted-Lowry concepts and the lack of presence of proposals addressing social, environmental and technological aspects.