ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTUAL ASTRONOMY ERRORS IN TEXTBOOKS OF INTEGRATIVE PROJECTS AND NATURE SCIENCES AND THEIR TECHNOLOGIES - PNLD 2021 HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

Independent and unofficial analysis on misconceptions of Astronomy for 6 textbooks of Integrative Projects and 7 collections of Natural Science and their Technologies, approved in PNLD 2021, High School. The methodology for data collection was the Qualitative Approach of research in Education and techniques of Content Analysis and Document Analysis were used. Settled down 6 previous categories and 50 unforeseen categories were established for Astronomy concepts and quantitative indices with a 10% tolerance for concepts, pages, final index and grade, as determined by Public Notice n.º 03/2019 of PNLD 2021. Integrative Projects textbooks did not present Astronomy conceptual errors and were all approved. All collections of Natural Science and their Technologies were disapproved, with 93 misconceptions of Astronomy in texts and illustrations. According to federal legislation of Brazil, textbooks approved in the PNLD cannot present conceptual errors and as all Natural Science textbooks have them and were approved, those responsible for publishing, official evaluations, purchase and distribution of textbooks should criminally liable for poor quality education.