scholarly journals Interculturalidade e ensino de ciências: O cotidiano de uma sala de aula

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Juarez Melgaço Valadares ◽  
Célio Silveira Júnior

Historically, science has become an obstacle to the introduction of other kinds of knowledge in schools. Since 1990, the superiority of scientific knowledge has been criticized by education researchers. In parallel, indigenous education has been proving itself as a privileged space of recognition of relationships among cultural groups, in a way that traditional types of knowledge have been incorporated into the school curriculum, bringing other challenges to the pedagogical work. In this paper, we discuss a case study in which traditional types of knowledge were part of a course from the Undergraduate Program for Indigenous Educators at Federal University of Minas Gerais. We collected interrelated situations involving food planting and astronomical observations under various conceptions, and we developed them in a dialogic form in the classroom. The strengthening of indigenous cultures was rethought as the interlocution kept made us see the viability of the cultural dialogue in its complexity. We hope to contribute to overcome the dichotomy between scientific knowledge and traditional culture in the curricular propositions of indigenous and non-indigenous school education.

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina De Lima Tavares ◽  
Juarez Melgaço Valadares ◽  
Celio Da Silveira Junior

Nesse trabalho apresentamos experiências curriculares vividas no Curso de Formação Intercultural para Educadores Indígenas (FIEI) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), área de Ciências da Vida e da Natureza (CVN), e nossa busca por compreender as interações entre os saberes tradicionais dos povos indígenas e o conhecimento científico em sala de aula. Para Aikenhead (2009) a educação científica nas aulas de ciências pode ser compreendida em termos do cruzamento de fronteiras culturais, a partir das experiências vividas pelos estudantes dentro e fora de sala de aula. Consideramos que a diversidade étnica presente em nossas salas de aula serve de âncora para uma pedagogia intercultural: a integração de grupos culturais distintos em espaço de reconhecimento e intercâmbio recíproco. A equipe de professores da habilitação CVN tem trabalhado os conteúdos de Física, Química e Biologia integrados por eixos temáticos, como instrumentos articuladores tanto das disciplinas entre si quanto na abertura do currículo para questões vivenciadas pelos professores indígenas em suas escolas. Aqui refletimos sobre os significados atribuídos a partir de leituras, discussões que fazemos em equipe e das avaliações dos alunos sobre os Módulos de aula. Pretendemos, sobretudo, a partir desta reflexão, subsidiar a construção de currículos e práticas inovadoras nas escolas indígenas, sempre permeadas pelo diálogo intercultural entre os saberes tradicionais dessas comunidades e o conhecimento científico acumulado historicamente. Questionamos: É possível pensar numa pedagogia da interculturalidade, ancorada em um projeto social que tenha como eixo norteador uma solidariedade emancipadora?Palavras-chave: Pedagogia intercultural; Ensino de ciências; Organização do currículo. ABSTRACT: In this work we present curricular experiences lived at the Intercutural Undergraduate Program for Indigenous Educators in the modality of Life Sciences and Nature of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and our search for understanding the interactions between traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and scientific knowledge in the classroom. For Aikenhead (2009) science education in science classes can be understood in terms of crossing cultural boundaries, from the experiences lived by students inside and outside the classroom. We consider that the ethnic diversity present in our classrooms serves as an anchor for an intercultural pedagogy: the integration of distinct cultural groups into a space of reciprocal recognition and exchange. The teaching team of CVN has worked on the contents of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, integrated by thematic axes, as articulating instruments of the disciplines between them as well as in the opening of the curriculum for questions experienced by indigenous teachers in their schools. Here we reflect on the meanings attributed from readings, discussions we make in the team, and from student assessments of Classroom Modules. We intend, above all, from this reflection, to subsidize the construction of curricula and innovative practices in indigenous schools, always permeated by the intercultural dialogue between the traditional knowledge of these communities and the historically accumulated scientific knowledge. We question: Is it possible to think of a pedagogy of interculturality, anchored in a social project whose guiding principle is emancipatory solidarity?Keywords: Intercultural pedagogy; Science teaching; Curriculum organization.


Author(s):  
John G Hansen ◽  
Rose Antsanen

This study developed out of a need to discuss Eurocentrism in Indigenous education and to provide what the Elders describe as an appropriate educational experience. The purpose of the study was, within a northern context, to discuss Indigenous education, and how educators and Elders perceived their cultural models, values, and aspirations of Indigenous resilience. This study deals with Indigenous resilience based on knowledge held by Indigenous educators and Elders with respect to the traditional teachings and values within Indigenous cultures in Northern Manitoba. We present the perspectives held by these constituents with respect to the notions of Indigenous resiliency. Two Indigenous researchers of Dene and Cree nations share their perspectives based on interviews with Indigenous Elders about traditional education in Northern Manitoba. Interview results demonstrate that a traditional, culturally appropriate model of education is significant to Indigenous resilience development.


Author(s):  
Pia Liv Russell

This interdisciplinary case study explores information literacy policy in Ontario’s public education system. Using interviews with policy makers and a rhetorical analysis of information literacy policy documents, it finds Ontario’s current information literacy policy inadequate to the task of providing equitable student access to opportunities for information literacy development.Une étude cas interdisciplinaire explore la politique de littératie informationnelle du système d’éducation publique de l’Ontario. En utilisant des entrevues avec les décideurs et une analyse rhétorique des documents sur la politique de littératie informationnelle, il est démontré que la politique de littératie informationnelle actuelle de l’Ontario est inappropriée pour la mission qui vise à offrir aux étudiants un accès équitable aux possibilités de développement de la littératie informationnelle. 


2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Mateos

This paper analyses the ways transfer of the discourse on interculturality and intercultural education, as it has been coined and shaped by European anthropologists and pedagogues, towards educational actors and institutions in Latin America. My ethnographic data illustrate how this intercultural discourse is currently transferred through intellectual networks to different kinds of Mexican actors who are actively “translating” this discourse into the post-indigenismo situation of “indigenous education” and ethnic claims making in Mexico. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in two different institutions in the state of Veracruz, the appropriation and re-interpretation of, as well as the resistance against, the European discourse of interculturality are studied by comparing the training of “intercultural and bilingual” teachers through the state educational authorities and the notion of intercultural education, as applied within the so-called “Intercultural University of Veracruz”.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Lorrin Ruihi Shortland ◽  
Terry Locke

This article reports on what happened when a Rumaki pūtaiao kaiako (Science) teacher at a New Zealand high school trialled the use of creative narratives with her Year-10 students as a way of developing their understanding of the human digestive system. These students were members of the school's Māori immersion unit, and creative narratives were in part utilised as a bridge between science discourse and the cultural knowledges these students brought to their learning. In this case study, students developed ‘Tomato Pip’ narratives through four versions, which told the story of a tomato pip travelling through the human digestive system. Word-count data based on these versions and from a summative test were analysed and correlations found between test scores and three categories of word-count total (total words, total science words and total discrete science words). A discourse analysis of one student's narratives identified two distinct voices in these texts: the personal narrator and the emerging biologist. Questionnaire and focus-group data indicated that the use of creative narratives was both motivational to these students and effective as a bridge into science discourse mastery. It is argued that the findings have implications for disciplinary literacy theory, Indigenous education and science instruction.


2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792199381
Author(s):  
Geng Lin ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Xiaoru Xie ◽  
Fiona Fan Yang ◽  
Zuyi Lv

As a medium for delivering modernity, movie theaters have faithfully recorded the dialogue between modernity and local daily lives. In contrast to modern movie theaters, traditional cinemas are distinguished by their long history, through which they reflect the changing connotations and social construction of modernity over time. Based on detailed analysis of the historical and social characteristics of Nanguan cinema, a 100-year-old movie theater in Guangzhou, China, we reach the following two conclusions: first, shaped by local traditional culture, the practice of moviegoing localizes modernity with a distinctive grassroots feature that enlivens everyday lives; second, moviegoing at traditional theaters in modern metropolitan areas has further enriched the connotations of modernity by providing a nostalgic experience for audiences.


2021 ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
Rosana de Vasconcelos Sousa ◽  
Fátima Maria Alencar Araripe

It addresses scientific production and communication at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). It presents the types of knowledge and the university as a producer and disseminator of scientific knowledge, with an emphasis on the types of scientific production of these institutions. It aims to identify the formal channels of scientific communication of UFC and the numbers of scientific production of its academic community in the last five decades. It uses bibliographic research, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. It concludes that the analysis of the numbers of the last five decades of UFC scientific productionmade available inits Institutional Repository and in Pergamumallows to verify the expressive quantitative advance of the production published in the last two decades, highlighting thenumbers of journal articlesavailable in the Institutional Repository and the disparityin the registration of TCC, dissertations and theses between the two platforms.


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