Modern Cosmology Grounded in the Elements of Epistemology of Lakatos: reception of a text for undergraduate students in physics

This paper presents the results obtained with the implementation of a text on modern cosmology, with a historical and epistemological approach. The text, Modern Cosmology Grounded in the Elements of Epistemology of Lakatos, traces the evolution of the big bang theory, with an epistemological approach that seeks to bring to the physics student an opportunity to better understand the nature of scientific research. It is presented a brief exposition of the pedagogical reference, based on the educational theory of Bob Gowin and the epistemology of Lakatos. It is then presented an overview of the text, and the results obtained by undergraduate students in physics in a teaching activity based on this text.

cosmology; big bang theory; research program; teaching of modern physics; educational materials