Museus de ciências brasileiros e seus contributos para uma educação em ciências antirracista

Abstract

The world lives moments when they happen and situations of violence against black people are replicated. Therefore, society manifests itself and feels the urgency of actions and, or laws that reverse this reality. Finally, it seems that the eyes of a large part of people are opening up to the situation of uncontrolin racial ethnic relations, whether in the social or economic sphere. This study brings the Science Museums to this context, since they are considered cultural artifacts that have a temporal historical location and propagators of a Science that may or may not contribute to people's education, because it is a place of learning. In methodological terms, this is adescriptive-interpretative research, whose general objective was to analyze the contribution of science museums to the dissemination of a (anti)racist education from the electronic pages, contents and materials of dissemination of science. The specific objectives were: To identify and characterize the authorship, the type of publication and materials available on the electronic pages of the museums related to (anti)racist education, in the period from 2019 to 2021; Select utterances, utterances and silences about the relationship between science and racism in the electronic pages of science museums; Examine the effects of meaning and the contexts of production of utterances and utterances about (anti)racist education on electronic pages of science museums; Present science museums as spaces for the production of a antirracist education. The analytical procedure was anchored in the approach proposed by Michel Foucault on Discourse Analysis (AD). Finally, we conclude that science that still predominates in the institutions surveyed is still far from reflecting the concept of decolonization, because most of the time it is still based on actions that do not favor or make room for the proposed discussion. However, there are already some museum institutions that guide their actions in education for ethnic racial relations, paving the way for the theme to cause reflection and anchor new procedures aimed at developing empathy and respect between different cultures and groups.