Events on African science, anti-racism and pedagogy in action – Jornal da USP

Three events will be broadcast by Alfredo Bossi’s President of Basic Education at USP this week: two mini courses and one Date. This Tuesday, 26, at 19:00 the mini-session will be held Decolonizing science: the contributions of African and Aphrodisiac science. On Thursday, 28, also at 19:00, it will be the turn of the mini-course Education Maker: Do the Learning. Indeed Date Across Borders for Anti-Racist Educators and Educators It takes place on Friday, the 29th, at 2 pm. The three events are free, aimed at primary school teachers and university students from all over Brazil and will be broadcast live Professor’s YouTube channel. There is no need to register.

The mini-course on Contributions of African Science will be presented by Professor Barbara Karen, of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). It aims “to present inherited and contemporary scientific and technological production from an African perspective, and seek to redefine Western intellectual norms through the problematic of the ‘Greek miracle’ – a story that establishes the origin of much Western knowledge of Greek civilization,” according to the text published in chair site. For this, he will present “basic concepts for understanding this historical erasure, such as cognitive looting and cognitive genocide.” The mini-course will also bring the foundations of the Ubuntu philosophy – which originated in Africa – to understand other possibilities of existence and existence in the world, and to produce science from other existential and methodological markers.

Managed by a team of educators, a mini course on maker It will introduce concepts and experiences of action-based learning. “Students’ creativity becomes the main component of participation in the learning process when building tools and strategies for developing a project and/or solving a problem. Culture maker It can be implemented in schools starting with shared resources (scrap metal, household stuff), and may evolve into spaces with more technologically advanced resources,” the chair highlights on its website.

The Date It aims to discuss anti-racist practices in the school. It is also taught by a team of educators and will “promote critical pedagogical exchanges and decolonization on anti-racist knowledge and educational knowledge and practices of ethno-ethnic relations in everyday school life,” reads the chair’s website. “From a cross-sectional, interdisciplinary, and intersectional point of view, the exchange aims to understand the dynamics of building and developing educational knowledge, practices, and policies that address racial and ethnic diversity since the BNCC (Base Nacional Comum Curricular). Focusing on the personality and experiences of primary education professionals and/or administrators, it is also assumed That the exchange allows for empirical and theoretical approaches that help us reduce the barriers that exist between academia and schools.”

More information is available at Alfredo Bossi is Head of the Department of Basic Education at the University of the South Pacific.

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