PAINT AND ART: A PROPOSAL OF PHYSICS IN CONTEXT IN A TEACHER TRAINING MASTER

Teaching Physics in context is one of the key to open new way of learning for the pupils. It give the opportunity to understand how physics constructs link between theory and real world and to make explicit the cultural value of physics for all citizen and not only for scientist. In particular art is a very stimulating field in which we can build physics knowledge, evidencing at the same time the interlacing between art techniques and physics laws, useful for understanding everyday phenomena, connected with other field of knowledge. We developed a proposal in which the painting properties and the related optical perceptions stimulate questions, that motivate the search of physical law at the base of observed phenomena. In the context of IDIFO Master instituted as an application of National Plan for Scientific Degree (PLS) for physics teachers we carried out a Module of Formative Intervention on this topic enriched by a discussion in web forum about physics and painting art. One of the main results for teachers participating was the adoption of new ways for teaching physic and the relative connection with math culture. Considering in particular the final documents produced, summarizing the proposal of school activities, emerged three different positions: who suggest effective context in which motivate the study of physical law; who separate completely the physics treatment from the successive analysis of painting; who interpret the opportunity to link physics and art to include humanistic aspect in physics lessons.