Puentes entre conocimientos científicos escolares y conocimientos ecológicos tradicionales : un estudio de aula en la comunidad wayuu

Abstract

This doctoral thesis develops an interpretative approach about the bridges between knowledges, just like a theorical-methodological category that guides classroom activities and allows crossing cultural borders when the students learn sciences in the schools of Wayuu community. This research allowed characterizing the knowledge bridges about the relationship implied by them. These ones are: intercultural relationships, social relationships, political relationships and of equity and equality relationships. Furthermore, it was established some epistemological and ontological commitments in a plural way connected to essence of being a wayuu, their ethos and their cosmovision. In this work, it was described these assimilationist, moral and humanist, plural, epistemological and ontological, and contextual bridges when students learn science. This category allows students to accomplish the crossing of cultural bridges between their native culture and the science culture.