Aprender ciências e biologia em pedagogias das encruzilhadas: confluências na formação universitária e nas religiosidades de matrizes africanas

Abstract

What can a science and biology education do that pays attention to the potential learning experiences that occur at the intersections between the university and an axé house? Based on this question, this work focuses on the researcher’s experiences as a graduate student in Biological Sciences and a religious practice of African origin. Knowledge from Umbanda and Candomblé is discussed with academics in the fields of natural sciences and education to consider educations that can occur at these crossroads. To this end, narratives were written that seek to revisit and map the affections, experiences, and knowledge between these two territories – the terreiro and the university. The emerging narratives highlight how historically delegitimized epistemologies find space to dialogue with science education through decolonial/countercolonial education, which mobilize Exu as a methodological principle and occur in conjunction with enchanted teaching.