BETWEEN RIVERS AND WALLS: PERSPECTIVES OF RIVERSIDE AND URBAN ADOLESCENTS ON WAYS OF INHABITING THE WORLD
Critical Environmental Education; Science Teaching; Traditional Knowledge; Decolonization.
In this research, I analyze how urban and riverside contexts influence the way middle school adolescents (Ensino Fundamental II) inhabit, perceive, and relate to their territories. The investigation is guided by the question: how do sociocultural contexts shape adolescents' environmental perceptions and in what way can Science teaching favor the dialogue between distinct forms of relating to the territory? I adopt a theoretical approach that integrates contributions from political ecology, critical environmental education, science teaching, and decolonial perspectives, challenging the modern separation between nature and culture. Methodologically, I develop a qualitative narrative approach, in which my teaching experience operates as the structural axis of the analysis. Data production will involve workshops and participant observation at the urban school Centro de Ensino Fundamental Miguel Arcanjo and the riverside school Escola Municipal Padre Pio, with audiovisual records and field notes. The analysis in perspective of these contexts seeks to contribute to the valorization of traditional knowledge and the strengthening of a situated, critical, and intercultural Environmental Education in Science Teaching