Elaboração do Podcast Cosmo Mulheres : físicas no Brasil, a visibilidade merecida

Abstract

In this work, a research is developed about the theme of women in exact sciences. We start from the main idea: the exclusion of the female gender within science, the invisibility in teaching materials, consequently within classrooms, and the development, culturally accepted, of white man's science. As a way to promote the visibility of female researchers within science/physics teaching, a potentially significant and incisive didactic material is developed in the basic education of high school students. The potentially significant materials are derived from the theory of significant learning of David Ausubel and Joseph Novak, and meet the governing documents of Brazilian basic education: the Common National Curricular Base and the National Curricular Parameters. Thus, this work produced a Podcast, entitled Cosmo Mulheres (Cosmo Women), which addresses issues in the areas of Cosmology, Astronomy, and women's experiences in the exact sciences. The cosmologist Maria Elidaiana da Silva Pereira and the astronomer Natália Amarinho Nunes were invited to participate in the conversations of each episode. As a way of evaluating the didactic material produced, a questionnaire was applied to high school physics teachers, analyzing the content developed, the possible use in the classroom and the quality of the material. As a result of the evaluation of the Podcast by the teachers, we can conclude that the material developed is considered accessible, didactic, incisive, relevant to the teaching of astronomy, and a resource for meaningful learning, corroborating the deconstruction of paradigms about women in the exact sciences.