O ensino de eletricidade em São Paulo e alguns exemplos de suas possibilidades práticas - objetos e experimentos científicos

Abstract

In the last years of the 19th century and during the first three decades of the 20th century, the teaching of science and physics intensified and the use of objects for the practical teaching of this subject became indispensable and a real craze in secondary education in São Paulo. In this study, we propose an analysis of the scientific objects used in secondary education classrooms, in addition to comparing other sources with the aim of making inferences about practical teaching and the experimental possibilities of teaching electricity in the period. We used textbooks, catalogs, and widely circulated newspapers of the time for analysis and, mainly, scientific objects and their peculiarities. The pieces presented in this study are approached in their subjective and material aspects, guided by the study by DA SILVA (2005) and are found in the Escolar Museu do Colégio Marista Arquidiocesano de São Paulo.