Thinking and acting ‘outside the box’: digital game and production of pedagogical affectations in teacher training

Abstract

In this article we track the effects of incorporating digital games to the initial teachers training in Physics during a course at a Brazilian public university. To this purpose, we used the production of empirical data from field observations and the preparation of reports by students during our Research-Action. We systematized our sources of information using open coding in the ATLAS.ti software and this result was discussed under the contributions of the Actor-Network Theory of Bruno Latour and collaborators. In our analysis, we identified the affectation of the pedagogical meanings of future teachers related to digital games and their incorporation into a proposal for teaching Physics.

Keywords:
Physics teaching; Higher education; Digital games; Initial teacher training; Action research; Actor-network theory