Uma proposta de ensino de ciências na amazônia por meio da epistemologia de Ludwik Fleck

Abstract

This paper presents some reflections based on Fleck's epistemology, indicating some museum conceptions, suggestive of different styles of thought. Another aspect of Fleck's theory, shifted to this research's reality is the intercollective circulation of ideas, which consists of communicating the concepts of malaria to an unskilled audience. In carrying out activities at the Graduate Program for Science Education and Teaching in the Amazon, of Amazonas State University (UEA), the ethnographic research and qualitative approach was complemented with on-site field observations held during 2016, in a municipal school located in the eastern area of Manaus-AM, and in visits to the Seringal Vila Paraíso Ecomuseum-ESVP. The goal is to promote reflections on science t.vaianeaching, including visits to the Seringal Vila Paraíso Ecomuseum, based on some concepts ofFleck's epistemology. The results indicate that the ESVP spaces and artefacts enable the circulation, communication and dissemination of scientific knowledge (esoteric group), including knowledge about the history of malaria in the Legal Amazon, to an unskilled group (exoteric group), provided that the mediator masters the subject in depth and uses diversified resources in the communication of scientific concepts. Keywords: Epstemology. Science. Eco Museum. Seringueiro. Malaria