CHOREOGRAPHY OF THOUGHT: intercultural approaches and dialogues between Dance and Science Teaching from a scientific popularization perspective
Science teaching, Interculturalism, Dance, Nature of science, Popularization of science.
Assuming a basic position in our society, science and understanding its universe are indisputable necessities within the teaching movement. Learning about the spaces and structural aspects of society not only contributes to the participation of individuals but also constructs the realities in which they are inserted, giving this movement the duality of weaving and being woven by the subjects. In this sense, understanding scientific culture as a whole is a way of building critical thinking that is attentive to social contexts and activities, with the nature of science (NS) being the main contributor to this practice. However, the main means of contact with this universe (school) is still guided by a logic that is not very coherent with the reality of the scientific universe, leading science education to simplistic and naive interpretations. In this logic, interculturality presents itself as an alternative to perspectives that are less attentive to the cultural context of science, since it makes room for the multiplicity of diverse cultures that already inhabit the school space. This multiplicity allows for more complex understandings, as well as being identified as a democratic way of managing teaching spaces. This work proposes dance as a second culture, capable of dialoguing and forging new approaches to science. Within this context, we aim to weave dialogues of mutual exchange between scientific culture and dance, in order to provide broader understandings of the movements and processes of the natural sciences from a perspective of scientific popularization. The research is qualitative in nature, with the characteristics of a case study and was developed in collaboration with the UFRN Science Popularization Laboratory (LabPOP). The research corpus consisted of video presentations that won various editions of the Dance your PhD (Dancing about the sciences) competition, analyzed to choreograph the dialogues between dance and the sciences.