A VIEW FROM THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICS TEACHING: THE FEYERABENDIAN PERSPECTIVE OF GALILEO'S ASTRONOMY
Physics teaching; Philosophy of Science; Paul Feyerabend; astronomy; Galileo Galilei
This work relates the area of History and Philosophy of Science to its implications for science teaching, highlighting the importance and pedagogical potential of the area. He recommends the epistemology of the science philosopher Paul Feyerabend to propose the use of the historical-philosophical approach as a didactic strategy for teaching physics, specifically, in the astronomy contents that involve the historical character Galileo Galilei. To this end, three astronomy themes were identified, which are traditionally taught by physics teachers in the first year of high school and which, in an articulated way, comprise a picture of Galileo's works and have great historical relevance to Feyerabend's epistemological criticisms. Then, we make a Feyerabendian reinterpretation of Galileo's astronomy, pointing to its use in the teaching of physics. And, finally, we propose a didactic unit composed of three moments - an astronomical observation meeting, a theoretical construction activity and a jury session - as a subsidy to work on the world systems of Galileo Galilei in high school physics classes.