Ancestral Technology in Quilombola Communities: A Dialogue with Studies in Science, Technology, Society and Flour Houses

Abstract

The proposed study aims to analyze the potential of Casas de Farinha in the Quilombola do Degredo community, located in the municipality of Linhares/ES/Brazil, as a learning space, in light of the CTS approach. This proposal seeks to integrate the socio-environmental knowledge of Quilombola Communities into the teaching of Science with the pedagogical practices developed in a Specialization course in Environmental Education at the Rio Doce Escolar Project (PRDE). The objective is to establish a collaborative interface between the group of project learners and the Master of ancestral knowledge from Casa de Farinha, aiming to disseminate the intercultural knowledge mobilized throughout the training process through the production of teaching sequences inspired by the Cultural Crossing Units of Science and Technology (UCCCT) developed by (AIKENHEAD, 2000), in this study, called by Brasil (2019) the Cultural Mediation Unit in Science and Technology (UMCCT). The research methodology was based on the ethnographic approach based on STS studies from a Freirean critical perspective. The results indicate the connection between Casas de Farinha and the CTS perspective, when considering the scientific, technological and social dimensions of the ancestral practices of Quilombola communities, and the complexity of interactions between scientific knowledge, technological knowledge and cultural values, allowing ruptures with forms unique ways of producing knowledge by recognizing the interconnection between science, technology, society and culture.