Astronomy Teaching for people with visual disabilities: A survey on bibliographic production in congresses in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Andre Lucas Matthaeus
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Paganotti, Arilson, Leão, Ana Rachel Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/14604
• topic: Astronomia; Deficiência visual; Cego; Ensino.; Astronomía; Discapacidad visual; Ciego; Ensenãnza.; Astronomy; Visual impairment; Blind; Teaching.

One of the oldest sciences, Astronomy has always instigated the curiosity of the human being. However, it has not been taught within schools the way it should be. In addition, with the emergence of the Brazilian Inclusion Law, the number of students with visual impairments has been increasing in schools. However, educators, for the most part, are not prepared to work astronomy in the classroom, much less with visually impaired students. In view of this reality, a bibliographic review was proposed in this work, to investigate trends in Brazilian research in Astronomy Teaching for visually impaired people, in addition to assisting educators in their search for sources to work on this topic with their students. The research was carried out in the annals of six Brazilian congresses. Data analysis was performed based on Content Analysis by categorization based on three descriptors. Some conclusions obtained show that the number of researches in the area, although few, has been increasing in recent years. Besides that, research has been carried out not only in the school environment, but also outside schools. It was also noted that most publications involve the manufacture and use of tactile materials, as they are easier and more practical to work with, besides the possibility of being manufactured with low-cost materials.