Biodiversidade e educação em uma comunidade multiétnica: conhecimentos e práticas para uma educação intercultural em ciências na Amazônia

Abstract

What if we thought about science education in the Amazon Forest based on the indigenous way of living? In these writings we will not be talking about how to teach Occidental Science in an indigenous community. On the other hand, I propose to think that the teaching of these sciences can be inspired by our indigenous way of existing in the world and our relationship with nature – which we also are part of. Our guiding principle will be Biodiversity Education in an intercultural dialogue with a indigenous community with whom I share ancestry. So, I invite everyone to think about biodiversity beyond the diversity of living beings and their genetic information, directing ourselves to think about this concept in an intrinsic and inseparable relationship with cultural diversity. It is worth mentioning that indigenous peoples, in their territories, throughout time on Earth, granted ways of maintenance and well-being of nature and biodiversity. Considering all this, the research presented here followed an autoethnographic perspective, with the contribution of photographic records and participant observation, to introduce the relationship between the culture of a multiethnic community and the biodiversity in the territory, mainly focusing on the knowledge and practices that involve learning how to live in the territory. Knowing these relationships, we all can then think about the possibility of science education in the Amazon Forest in an intercultural perspective. Keywords: Biocultural diversity, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Education.