A profile of the research in Astronomy Teaching in Brazil from the periodic review of the

Abstract

The article is the result of my master's degree dissertation that is to
describe the profile of the research in Astronomy Teaching in Brazil,
through the newspapers of Science Teaching analysis that have
been published in the last twenty years. The work is divided in two
parts, a quantitative one, in which the data were collected by the
analysis of 1772 articles published in newspapers of national
circulation, and a second part that corresponds to an interpretation
of a 38 published articles in the Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino
de Física, where we tried to understand how it is described
by researchers. As a theoretical referential, we used the
Laurence Bardin’s Content Analysis, and as a technique of data
analysis/collect in the first part and yet the Chevallard’s Didactic
Transposition Concept in the second part as a way to evaluate the
patterns found in the texts of these newspapers that allowed us to
recognize the author’s view of the analyzed area. What we have
found was an area that is still been built, but with very defined
characteristics when the issue are the problems that were found,
the way they are spread and the researcher’s concern in
transforming the Astronomy Teaching in a potential didactic
resource.