O terreiro de umbanda “Janaína e Ogum Beira-Mar” como lócus propiciador do ensino de ciências - uma experiência com crianças em espaço não-formal.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the Yard de Umbanda "Janaína and Ogum Beira-Mar" as a conducive conduit for teaching science within the Yard de Umbanda was chosen as a space that can be subsidized for compliance with Law 11.645 / 2008, which establishes the teaching of African and Indian history and culture based on experiences with children and other subjects that are part of this socio-religious environment with the possibility of Teaching Science. Emphasis is given to the knowledge built and shared among the subjects studied, giving relevance to the use of medicinal plants in curing various diseases, as well as emphasizing social relations and the significance of living among children, adults and spiritual entities. The study has the qualitative character, of phenomenological approach and ethnographic procedure that allowed us to reflect the phenomenon researched.Thus, it can be verified that the subjects' reports show the influence of Umbanda in the formation of children's identity, as well as the way of education that takes place inside the Yard, being that the identity is a dynamic process influenced by several human aspects . In this way, this study is based on Graue's theories; Walsh (2003), Kramer (2002), Carneiro (2014), Caputo (2012), Jacobucci (2008), Chassot (2003), Bachelard (2005), among others. Thus we understand that the research contributed to a reflection on the Yard de Umbanda as a space for learning science, where in fact a construction of knowledge lived and learned orally by children and adepts of religion.