Contribuições epistemológicas/metodológicas para o fortalecimento de uma (cons)ciência emancipadora

Abstract

The hegemonic paradigm of science, regardless of its unquestionable contributions to society, is in the middle of an increasing ethical and epistemological disbelief. The result of a rationality that flouted an ontological reflection about its praxis, it contributed to create new complex problems, endangering the very survival of mankind. In the present social configuration, we have modern problems to which we have no modern solutions. Such a situation tends to the construction of a new form of knowledge production, able to give resolution to problems that modern science itself has contributed to engender. This work aims to objective an analysis in the praxeological dimension of the theoretical-methological and sociopolitical presuppositions of the research “Epistemological study of the population of low Jaguaribe exposed to environmental contamination in area of agrotoxic usage”. The case study method was used, preceded by the use of focal groups, interview in depth and semi-structured interview as technique. For the analysis of the qualitative material the Discourse Analysis in conformity with the presuppositions of the Hermeneutics of Profundity was adopted. In the midst of the epistemological disbelief that arises in the horizon of the modern paradigm, it is possible to find an opportunity to rethink new performance practices in the process of knowledge construction. This way, this study aimed to surpass the simplifier ways of understanding of reality from the conjugation of complex epistemological inputs. It was, then, transdisciplinary, since it aimed to understand the phenomenon in its multiple meanings. It refuted the false axiological neutrality that has historically favored the interests of the hegemonic classes, contributing to widen the social inequalities. The social destination of the knowledge produced was a preoccupation in this work, positioning itself in favor of the less favored social classes. In this way, the elaboration of a scientific knowledge able to commune with the popular wisdom was aimed, in a horizontal and fraternal manner. The commitment of maintenance of a permanent dialogue between the research and the social actors of the investigated territories was set, feeding the processes of fight and resistance of those communities. Thus, it used the scientific knowledge in favor of the counter hegemony with the intention of giving a voice to the experiences that were not made viable by the hegemonic paradigm of science. The need of an elaboration of new work processes in research, able to incorporate the dimension of the subjectivity and uncertainty is a present demand. One able to acknowledge in the incompleteness of the scientific knowledge, the favorable conjuncture for the making of new relations with the rustic people’s wisdom, Indians and traditional.