Etnoecologia, formação de professores de ciências e letramento ecológico: desenvolvendo um perfil culturalmente sensível.

Abstract

Intercultural scientific education requires negotiations among the knowledge systems and the tensions that could emerge between them. On the basis of ethnobiological fieldwork, educational interventions and collaborative work between different actors of the process, was explored the potential of intercultural science education and the development of a culturally sensitive profile in science teachers to mediate between Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Academic (AEK) in teaching practices. The objective of this work, qualitative nature was to continue with a master degree research developed in the years of 2015 to 2016 in the Village of Coração de Maria (Bahia, Brazil), seeking to enlarge the research process about ethnoecological approaches to in-service science teachers from participant schools, with the idea of describe and develop a culturally sensitive profile in science education (ecology) aiming at ecological literacy and decision making by students towards ecological relationships and insects with agricultural relevance. For this, was developed a collaborative work since a transdisciplinary methodological perspective and a collaboration and knowledge co-production between, university, community and school (researcher-teachers-community); and then, to propose a theoretical-methodological model to relate the Academic Ecological Knowledge (AEK) with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) about insects, crop methods form the two villages which students belongs; seeking with these i). Possibilities to intercultural dialogue (interepistemical and interontological) into the educative process; ii). To concrete the development of a didactical resource in comic format based on intercultural dialogue to ecology approaching; iii). Develop a didactical re-design to propose an intercultural teaching-learning sequence; and iv). To contribute in the continued training of the 4 participant teachers towards the development of a culturally sensitive profile sensitive to cultural diversity in biology (ecology) teaching. Thus, to develop a critics standing toward ethnocentrism and epistemic superiority in science teaching, and to guide activities into intercultural science education process that dialogues not only with epistemic commitments of the participants, but recognize and negotiate the ontological commitments in the process also. These two actions, understood as an educational process sensitive to cultural diversity, specifically related with biology teaching (ecology). In conclusion, it is precise fostering the teacher-researcher (pre and in-service) training capable to recognize and valuing cultural differences and negotiate between knowledge systems. This work is considered a contribution in both fields, first, focused in science teacher training to the development of a culturally sensitive profile, and second, to discuss theoretical-empirical contributions in an intercultural science education consolidation.