Decolonizing Natural Sciences, Environmental and Health Education: Reflections from a Continuous Teacher Training Experience

DUMRAUF, A.; CORDERO, S.; IRIBARREN, L.; ITHURALDE, R.E.

A Sociopolitical Turn in Science Education. Towards Post-pandemic Words

Springer - Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education

Año: 2024; p. 197 - 218

In this chapter we share a journey through theoretical perspectives, actions, experiences and reflections that have outlined our collective pathways with the intention of decolonizing a field we call Natural Sciences, Environmental and Health Education. In dialogue with a recent experience, two editions of a Continuous Teacher Training course for the primary level, held virtually in 2021 for our entire country (Argentina), we will seek to deepen our collective reflections in order to enrich pedagogical perspectives in the field. In each course, we proposed a critical and comprehensive analysis of regional eco-territorial conflicts and socio-sanitary crises to understand local complex realities, which, in turn, are regarded as part of the planetary crisis. We sought to put into play the socio-cultural diversity of the territories in order to generate a dialogue of knowledges, ways of feeling and living. In that way, scientific, popular and indigenous knowledge, among others, were invited to be exchanged in a critical intercultural process. Recovering the voices of students, tutors and authors of materials, we inquire about the connections and resignifications of the perspective of the course in their post-pandemic practices.