Article ID: CBB701642472

Intercultural science education as a trading zone between traditional and academic knowledge (2020)

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Intercultural science education requires negotiations between knowledge systems and of tensions between them. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and educational interventions in two farming communities in the Northeast of Brazil, we explore the potential of science education to mediate between traditional and academic knowledge. While traditional knowledge shapes agricultural practices and interactions with the environment in the villages of Coração de Maria and Retiro, academic knowledge is emphasized in biology education. On the basis of philosophical debates about “partial overlaps” between epistemologies, ontologies and value systems, we analyze relations between traditional and academic ecological knowledge in these communities and argue that they can inform reflective practices in intercultural dialogue. By investigating biology education as a “trading zone” between knowledge systems, we analyze how partial overlaps become negotiated in educational practices in rural Brazil and provide the basis for educational interventions that foster intercultural dialogue.

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Authors & Contributors
Monteiro, Marko
Lena Kaufmann
Crooks, Roderic N.
Juliano Spyer
Taylor, Kathryn
Dent, Rosanna
Concepts
Ethnography
Education
Agriculture
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Farmers
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
Ancient
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Brazil
United States
Amazon River Region (South America)
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Russia
Japan
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