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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Justifications for the Teaching of Astronomy in Basic Education: The
Opinion of Licensed Teachers in Physics
José Isnaldo de Lima Barbosa1,2, Marcos Rincon Voelzke2,3
(1. Federal Institute of Alagoas, Brazil; 2. University Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil;
3. Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Abstract: Several researches in Brazil present diverse justifications for the teaching of Astronomy to be developed in Basic Education, however, such allegations do not derive from investigations on the subject, but from the researcher’s own experience, either as a teacher or as a promoter of Astronomy. Therefore, this paper aims to broaden this discussion by presenting the results obtained with a questionnaire made to physicists in formal education and online learning modalities of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), where it was asked: What justification do you point to the importance for teaching Astronomy subjects in Basic Education? The method used was the survey, and a total of 77 answers were obtained for the question, being 44 of students of the online learning (OL) and 33 of the formal education. The set of responses was transformed into a corpus in which a textual analysis was performed through IRAMUTEC software. Of the 77 responses presented, 65 were analyzed, and the results show that one of the categories identified provides coherent arguments directly related to one of the categories presented in the referenced researches, that is, Astronomy awakens feelings and concerns and is a motivating element in the teaching process-learning of science.
Key words: basic education, teaching of astronomy, textual analysis
