Abstract

CHADWICK, Geraldine  and  BONAN, Leonor. Intercultural Scientific Education: Building Conceptual Bridges about the Pleiades in the Gran Chaco. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2018, n.43, pp.17-29. ISSN 0121-3814.

This paper presents the research results of a final dissertation from the Master of Natural Sciences Education. To that end, we went to middle schools where most of the attending students are from the Quom ethnic group. As part of a research-action on Intercultural Scientific Education (ISE) and Natural Sciences Education (NSE), the main goal was to find conceptual links or bridges between scientific knowledge and vernacular knowledge through a common subject. For that purpose, we designed exploratory activities to evaluate the presence of scientific and vernacular cultural elements about the Pleiades, a very significant star cluster for Amerindian people. Based on the results obtained in these activities, we obtained a classification of the main actors and figures of the Quom sky, revealing the relevant place of the Pleiades in the ancestral sky.

Keywords : Intercultural scientific education; teaching natural sciences; links; the Pleiades; Quom people.

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