An Afro-Latin American Thought in STS for Teaching Science

• In Event: Reimagining and Remaking the World: Decolonial and Indigenous STS

Abstract

The called “Latin American Thought in Science, Technology and Society” (LAT-STS), that was originated between 1960s and 1970s decades, it's the sociocultural basis about conceptions of social making-being projects. However, in a discursive perspective, these projects have not been conceived by the senses and knowledge of the Afro-Latin American people, whose STS asymmetries has involved in the structure of colonialities in Science Teaching in Latin America. The social representations and democratic the people who make up the nation, for a society of justice and equality, it's a basis element of the form-content for Science Teaching. In this way, this research seeks the production of meanings for technoscientific inclusions by ancestral senses and knowledge of Afro-Latin American people, from discourses that circulate in their social making-being projects, as: social movements; the mote of artistic productions; conceptions of ancestral work in science and technology; philosophy; afrocultural concepts/definitions, among others.
Therefore, by the Discourse Analysis, by the French school of Michel Pêcheux, translated by the Brazilian teacher-researcher Eni P. Orlandi, this research intends to resignify the thesis about africanities and technoscientific afrodescendence, by theories about coloniality of power, of being and of making, by Peruan sociologist Aníbal Quijano and by Puerto Rican philosopher Nelson Maldonado-Torres, for to consolidate (that is, by meanings produced from the Latin American periphery, in an afro-situated context) a “Afro-Latin American Thought in STS” for teaching Science.

Author

• Roberth Jesus De-Carvalho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina - IFSC