A história da astronomia em Pernambuco e no nordeste do Brasil: a linha do tempo em forma de cordel

Abstract

This work seeks to present Cordel Literature as a tool of the dissemination of scientific themes and in particular Physics and Astronomy, as well as to analyze its use in class and in non-formal educational spaces, as a motivational strategy of science’s teaching, showing that cordel can be an important vehicle to popularize science, a good teaching and learning strategy and an alternative educational tool. To achieve the proposed objectives, the central theme chosen was to make a narrative of the History of Astronomy in Pernambuco and the Northeast of Brazil: The Timeline in the form of a “cordel”. The following procedures were executed: a documentary research, as faithful as possible, of all the main events in the field of Astronomy that took place over time; the choice of the type of “cordel” to be used; identification of “cordeis” whose titles addressed some topics related to Science; the adequacy of the “cordel” as a scientific literacy tool. After these actions, workshops were held and video classes were produced at the IFPE Campus Caruaru, where the Cordel of the Astronomy Timeline was brought to our students, the very structure for the elaboration of the cordel's stanzas in sextiles, culminating with its resentation, in a “cordel” full of stories and content from Physics and Astronomy, suggesting to students the exercise of the art of declaiming and reciting the “cordel”, in a playful and fun learning process.