A REDE DO TEMPO DE HENRIETTA LEAVITT E A RELAÇÃO PERÍODO-LUMINOSIDADE: SEQUÊNCIA DIDÁTICA SOBRE CONSTRUÇÃO DA CIÊNCIA

• Autor(a) principal: Bárbara de Almeida Silvério
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Camila Maria Sitko, Silvia F. de Mendonça Figueirôa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vitruvian Cogitationes
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/revisvitruscogitationes/article/view/66201
• topic: Science Teaching; Women in Astronomy; Astronomy History; Feminist Epistemology; . Actor-Network Theory; Enseñanza de las Ciencias; Mujeres en Astronomía; Historia de la Astronomía; Epistemología Feminista; Teoría del actor-red; Ensino de Ciências; Mulheres na Astronomia; História da Astronomia; Epistemologia feminista; Teoria Ator-Rede

The use of the History and Philosophy of Science in Science Teaching and, mainly, in the training of undergraduates who will teach science allows for critical development about the construction and Nature of Science, reducing the possibility of distorted views of scientific practice. With this in mind, this work aims to propose a didactic sequence in which the establishment of the Period-Luminosity Relation (RPL) is discussed and as its creator, Henrietta Leavitt appears throughout the history of Astronomy. Henrietta Leavitt was a woman who worked as a calculator at the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard University between the late 1800s and the early 20th century. In this role, she arrived at RPL in 1912. Several astronomers have used this concept in several studies in Astronomy. The improvement of the RPL allowed estimating the size of the Universe and that it is expanding. Considering the existing social relations in this historical episode, the didactic sequence was based on the feminist epistemological theory of Londa Schienbinger and the Actor-Network Theory of Bruno Latour.