Saberes populares e o ensino de química: Uma proposta pedagógica sobre o queijo flamengo.

Abstract

This work aims to answer the question: How to value popular culture around dairy Milk production in a town called Flor de Minas, working with popular knowledge and chemistry within thes chool? For this, a Field survey was carried out in a agrarian settlement located near this district. For this research, the main steps traced was: to follow, observe and record everything tha tthe producers did with milk, from manual milking to the final destination that they would give to it. This was necessary based on the objective of choosing a single Milk derivative for thedevelopment of the material. In this way, the data collection was done through filming and photos. Subsequently, information was sought on the theme of the Flamengo cheese for the work with the contents of the chemistry, making the relationship of this with the local popular knowledge obtained through the Field research. This stage aimed to produce a didactic material characterized by a narrative, using the hybrid discourse between popular knowledge and scientific knowledge. The literature research was based on a search of publications in magazines, event periodicals, handbooks, monographs and theses about Science/Chemistry teaching, and based on it some opinions on the locality in which the fiel dresearch was carried out, and al soon popular knowledge and how to use them in teaching chemistry. In this way, the didactic material was constructed in a prime format, using texts and images, contemplating some contents of the chemistry, such as: pH; solubility; methods of separation of mixtures (filtration); among others. Thus, this research reinforces the importance of working the popular knowledge in the teaching of Chemistry, and more than that, it emphasizes methods of how to do this. Therefore, this teaching strand is a way to rescue the popular culture of a region and bring it into the school, making the students feel like members of the school community and not Just listeners and receivers of content.