Literatura de cordel: a arte como recurso didático no ensino de astronomia

Abstract

Due to the rich pedagogical possibilities in the approximation between art and science, as well as the appreciation of popular culture through cordel literature, there was a need to produce some dialogue in teaching, with the objective of: Promoting scientific literacy through the approximation between astronomy and Cordel literature. The work was in the High school Áurea de Moura Cavalcante located in Olinda Pernambuco, where 6 classes from the second and third years of high school were chosen to make the intervention, that happens in three moments, the first was to make an initial survey and see what students knew about astronomy through a brainstorm and answering questions made in the classroom, show some authorial cordel literature about the history of astronomy in the state, as well as a brief approach to cordel literature, its history, importance and way of writing, in order to ask the groups to make their own strings, whether in pairs, trios, groups or individually, the deadline was one week to write the text whose theme was of free choice, but something related to the astronomy area. The third moment we held a literary soiree for students to exchange ideas and contemplate the work of their classmate, listening and reciting the cordel literature. Final balance was sixteen authorial texts with different subjects that were edited to make a booklet.