Astronomía para la educación: "De Macondo al cielo, del cielo a Macondo"

Abstract

Abstract This report presents an experience in the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional work that can be achieved through the dissemination and study of Astronomy. The experience is part of the bets on educational research of the interdisciplinary research incubator Paralajes of the School of Education Sciences at Universidad la Gran Colombia, with the participation of students from different undergraduate programs, who, with the help of a group of advisors from the the Bogotá planetarium, aim to disclose how the analysis and reflection on one of the activities that commonly takes place in the planetarium, gave rise to the development of a didactic sequence, which revealed, based on a qualitative descriptive research method, the significant learning of basic concepts of astronomy, as well as mathematical concepts associated with their study. This is based on a careful review and subsequent simulation of the different astronomical events that covered the sky throughout the development of the history of Macondo and the Buendía family in One Hundred Yearsof Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. The testing of the sequence took pace in district school Luis Eduardo Mora Osejo, located in the fifth Usme locality, with a focus group of sixth- and tenth-grade students in math class. According to the results obtained, this type of proposal not only captures the interest of students wanting to learn math and other basic sciences, but also abou the universe surrounding them; we also recognized the potential of using programs such as Stellarium and GeoGebra, both in educational research and in the teaching and learning process-in this case, in the teaching of astronomy and math, generating interesting reflections in terms of pedagogical innovation, which deserve to be studied and strengthened.