Diversidade e educação em ciências: reflexões sobre ciência moderna ocidental e outros conhecimentos tradicionais

Abstract

This article explores the importance of diversity in science education, approaching the traditional ancestral knowledge with the western modern science on a counter-colonial way. In this sense, the present study aims to find points of connection between science education, studies of the sciences, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and the voices of traditional communities. The texts for our reflexion and analysis compose a corpus that lies, in research and education, outside the epistemological limits imposed by an asymmetrical approach of knowledge. In consequence, we assume theoretical and methodological approaches that respect the differences and recognize the idea that differences contribute to the production of a common world.