Un enfoque de ense\~nanza de la Astronom\'ia: Algunas consideraciones epistemol\'ogicas y did\'acticas

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the epistemological and didactic aspects of teaching astronomy in Uruguayan primary education to help teachers design effective instructional sequences.

Contribution

It provides an epistemological and didactic analysis of the astronomy content in the Uruguayan IPE curriculum to guide teaching practices.

Findings

Provides 'reading keys' for teachers to interpret astronomical content

Suggests guidelines for designing teaching sequences

Analyzes the curriculum's astronomical content

Abstract

In order to guide teaching practices in Initial and Primary Education (IPE) level, it seems fundamental to start with an epistemological and didactic analysis of the programmatic content of the Knowledge of Nature area in the curriculum currently in force in Uruguay. In this work we briefly discuss the astronomical contents prescribed in the Program of IPE, year 2008, in order to provide teachers with some "reading keys" that might translate into possible guidelines for the design, implementation and evaluation of teaching sequences that address these contents.