Nas profundezas do mar de oportunidades: um estudo etnomatemático

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the association of daily / cultural practices of a particular community with scholarly knowledge helps students to understand the socio-cultural situation in which they find themselves. The pedagogical experiment was conducted with 11 students enrolled in 2013, in the class a, the 9th year of the Municipal School in Rio Grande City, through a qualitative approach seeks to identify the position they assumed in discourse propagated by community and outline your daily life. By using techniques such as, participant observation, informal interviews and analysis rebuild some social phenomena that constitute the subjectivity documents of these students. As a theoretical contribution , make use of the pedagogical implications of ethnomathematics approach crafted by Gelsa Knijnik that given the other ways to perceive the school environment as well as other legitimate ways of thinking mathematically in order to minimize the distance between the school and the social worlds . In the process we contemplate the two great pedagogical paradigms - technicist and critical - in order to understand how the centrality of curriculum influences the movement of a specific worldview. Emphasize the movements of official discourses concerning the deployment of naval pole in the city of Rio Grande, located in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. This was done based on discourse analysis proposed by Michel Foucault, in order to provide exploiting the look of these students, that are loaded social impositions and historical relations that produce truths that space and time. The analysis showed that the company is experiencing difficulty, at school, experiences ethnomathematics. Fact that underline the importance of reframing the social role of the school to that school practices are not only constitute the reproduction of specific unconnected concepts of sociocultural reality of the community.