Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Research indicates that initial teacher formation rarely deals adequately with astronomy, limiting their autonomy to teach the subject, despite the literature justifying its importance. In this context, the Eratosthenes Brazil Project offers formative episodes focused on practical activities for calculating the Earth's circumference. However, teacher autonomy for investigative practices in astronomy still faces significant obstacles. This research aims to explore these difficulties, focusing on the autonomy of the teachers registered in the project, through a qualitative study that includes content analysis of the records of remote meetings. As a result, the corpus analysis revealed three categories of initial obstacles: digital tools, practical implementation and school collaboration.

Biography:

Graduating in Physics at the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), he was a CAPES scholarship holder in the Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships (PIBID). She currently has a FAPESP scientific initiation grant, developing the research “Challenges for teacher autonomy in astronomy teaching with practical activities: A study within the framework of the Eratosthenes Brazil Project”. He is also a monitor at the “Lionel José Andriatto” Didactic Astronomy Observatory. He is interested in teaching physics, with an emphasis on astronomy.