A evolução humana na disciplina de Biologia e as relações étnico-raciais: aprendizagens a partir de uma intervenção educativa

Abstract

(Re)Education in ethno-racial relations is very important for the reduction of prejudice and racial discrimination. In all disciplines, in our case, the discipline of biology, the approach of the study of Human Evolution from the tales, myths and African and Afro-Brazilian legends is our object of research. The work was designed to take place in three survey activities and ten more classes for its development and completion. In these classes, we showed the students eleven videos and thirteen texts including tales, myths and legends about the origin of humanity and its intellectual and technological evolution, through the development of agriculture, fire control and iron metallurgy. Africanidades and the importance of black people for the development of Brazilian and World Science were also studied, deconstructing the Eurocentric vision of the Science development. The work was made using africanidades to explain human evolution, whose goals were to associate African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture (myth, tales and legends) and a biological concept (Human Evolution) in the perspective of education in ethno-racial relations. It was separated in seven steps: survey, quizzes, raising awareness, videos and texts about the subject, discussion and evaluation. By analyzing the partial results we obtained, the study gave the majority of the students a new point of view about the subject and helped deconstruct prejudice and reduce racial discrimination, because teaching human evolution using ethno-racial relations made teacher’s work on cultural and ethno-racial diversity possible.