O ensino de ciências em espaços não formais a partir dos saberes locais em uma comunidade ribeirinha no município de Parintins-AM

Abstract

The riparian communities of the floodplains in the Municipality of Parintins, Amazonas, present a very different context concerning to urbanization, basic sanitation, public transportation and infrastructure if comparing to metropolitan areas. These are Amazonian communities with an environment that consist of natural forest and river tributaries, but organized with conventional education systems, commerce, and religious institutions. In this context, we point out a pedagogical experience carried out in non-formal space, using natural elements of flora, and fauna in the riparian community "Holy Spirit", with the objective of understanding the vision of the students about Science classes according local situation. The methodology has a qualitative approach based on Chizzotti (1996), with participant observation techniques, with seventeen students from the sixth-grade of a elementary school. The results present that the contextualization of school knowledge based on the previous knowledge of the students facilitated the learning of sciences, so that the inclusion of local everyday experience, and knowledge within the class context enabled significant learning in this immense natural laboratory. Keywords: Science Teaching, Local knowledge, Riparian school.