Por um outro pensar natureza: a relação entre educação ambiental e a cosmovisão africana em sala de aula

Abstract

This work makes part of personal living facing a historic-philosophic thought about dichotomous relation human being/nature and its consequences, mainly on environmental context. Thus, the current environmental crisis has showed that world situation and its rearrangements are quite complex, and this way requiring a new thinking resolution. The school is a reflection of the society in which it is inserted, and it reproduces a current linear thinking, in addition it propagates the occidental hegemony, that is also European, white, patriarchal, and classist. Thus, the school has a crucial function to change this paradigm. In this context, against to the mechanic paradigm, it brings the idea from Edgar Morin and the complex thought to rebuilding thinking. As strategy to reach a new thinking, this work does an activity at EEM Adauto Bezerra School, relating students with African worldview, once it can contribute to the creation of ecological awareness. Also promotes demystification of African religions, bringing a rescue of Brazilian identity, making use of the law 10.639/03 at Biology classes. The research was done in two phases. First of all, a survey collected the student’s opinions about the theme. After that, class activities were performed. The students should do the survey and make a presentation about it, creating links between African worldview and biology’s topics. The results showed up that part of the students still had strong stereotypes related to African Culture and Afro-descendants. The in-class activity provided a positive information, once they could see connection between environmental issues and African culture. Lastly, the research proposal is to stimulate a new thinking, using the classroom environment like a trough transformer, and noticing that we belong to the nature, because it is the only one.