Resumen de The influence of gestures in the learning of Physics
Eloisa Neri de Oliveira, Guilherme Brockington, Leonardo André Testoni, Ana Maria Santos-Gouw, Camila Construcci, Pamella Aline De Almeida, Lucas Azevedo Mesquita Pereira, Amanda Malheiros, Guilherme De Albuquerque Bruneri
Several researches show that gestures are a fundamental element for the understanding of the discourse or of a thought. Thus, when considering the school context, in the communication between the teacher and the student, it is important to understand better the role of gestures in learning. This way, in order to investigate the role of gestures in the understanding of basic Physics concepts, students from the middle and upper classes watched videos with linear momentum contents. The students in each teaching segment were randomly allocated into two groups: one watched the videos where the teacher’s gestural activities were shown and the other watched the videos with only the teacher’s face. The results show that there was an improvement in the learning of the students who watched the videos with gestures, but this effect was observed only in high school students.
