No jardim do agora: a potência de um grupo de professoras que tem o laboratório e a ciência como marcas em suas práticas pedagógicas

Abstract

Today’s garden was a place for meetings where a researcher, carrying a theme-flower, lived, related to and extracted perfumes and essences from the flower-teachers. The power of a group of science teachers was engendered. The lab and science are the teaching marks of this group. The process of walking by today’s garden was guided by a thoughtful gardener, the cartography, which plays the role of a research perspective at this work. This perspective indicates the possibilities of walking through it. The meetings happened at Centro de Estudos e Projetos Educacionais Julieta Diniz - CEMEPE (Studies and Educational Projects Centre), in Uberlândia, during municipal science teacher’s training sessions. They were mediated by mechanisms that allowed us to access the collective force plan and the flower-teachers’ enunciation about the lab, science and their teaching process. The mechanisms used at the meetings were images, videos, welcoming group dynamics and fables. In line with the contemporary perception that reality is not revealed but made through the creation of problems, the science marks were showed and a common plan was originated. This is an experimental plan and it is accompanied by practices that result in a sense of belonging and highlights the group power. The meetings’ evolution allowed us to give to the science flower-teachers’ actions senses similar to those of scientists. Our reference was Bruno Latour’s science anthropology. In addition, the meetings culminated in the elaboration of a publicizing booklet with the practical activities made by the flower-teachers at their labs.