The postgraduate Brazilian studies in Physics Teaching using Complex Network

Jefferson Oliveira do Nascimento¹; Camila de Sousa Pereira-Guizzo¹; Roberto Luiz Souza Monteiro¹; Davidson Martins Moreira¹; Marcelo Albano Moret¹; Hernane Borges de Barros Pereira¹

¹ Programa de Modelagem Computational - SENAI CIMATEC

doi:10.20906/CPS/NSC2016-0010

Resumo

In this paper we study the topological structure of a semantic network based on keywords from thesis and dissertations on Brazil's Physics Teaching in the decade of 1996­2006. The results obtained were through some indices of social and complex networks. We analyzed the vertices with higher degree of centrality (hubs) we have inferred that the work carried out showed a pattern in terms of chosen keywords, indicating a preference for words associated with the training of physics teachers. The found topology of studied semantic networks are small-world and scale-free.

Palavras-chave: Complex Networks; Control in Complex Systems; Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Optimization; Social Network; Physics Teaching