Análise e aplicabilidade de investigações sobre temas de astronomia cultural envolvendo mitos lunares

Abstract

The sometimes inconsistent, sometimes non-existent approach to subjects related to Astronomy in Teaching has been studied with effort by a researcher who points to the teacher as an agent of change, requiring the search for usual tools, with effective didactic potential for approaching the theme, as well as as methodology and material with sufficient theoretical basis for its use. Cultural Astronomy, celebrated by myths told from generation to generation, contemplates such potentialities. We take the Moon and its phenomena. This work aims to investigate how the myths about the Moon have been characterized in Post-Graduation works, in order to create an anthropological database of the most diverse cultures, related to the Moon, in order to constitute interdisciplinary and intergenerational materials to be used. they are used in Teaching Astronomy in Basic Education, through the creation of a character that travels through different cultures in search of self-knowledge. The research is part of the qualitative field, and for the constitution of the data, a search was made in the CAPES catalog of theses and dissertations based on the keywords “Cultural Astronomy” and “Ethnoastronomy. The data constituted in this investigation were analyzed from the theoretical perspective of content analysis. Our data show that myths and day-to-day events mix naturally in the productions found, also indicating that the myths are based on Cultural/Social Anthropology.