Ciencia en la selva, un acercamiento al pensamiento espacial y cosmogónico mediante experimentos de física

Abstract

The encounter between western knowledge and Indigenous own ways of knowing poses a challenge for building truly horizontal educational processes. Within this framework, the "Tutoring Program for Learning and Integral Education" supported the development of an undergraduate intership in the community of San Rafael, Amazonas department, aimed at bringing Murui students in grades 4 and 5 closer to physics through the design and construction of different devices that integrated observation, play, and experimentation. The methodology began with the recognition of the local cultural and educational context and the integration of traditional knowledge with concepts from physics such as optics, fluids, dynamics, and the microscopic world to explain phenomena present in nature. Through workshops and collaborative laboratories, a dialogue of knowledge was promoted in which physics was experienced as a creative and contextualized practice. The results showed genuine interest among students aged 8 to 12 in experimentation and scientific exploration, along with a re-signification of science as a tool for understanding and valuing the natural environment. This experience highlights the potential of science to explain the world and to stimulate integralthought in rural and Indigenous contexts, with the fundamental purpose of nurturing the human capacity for wonder.