INTERSECTIONAL RESEARCH AND DIFFERENCE IN CHEMISTRY TEACHING

Abstract

This article is the result of bibliographical research (GIL, 2002), of a qualitative nature, on the theme of intersectionality and difference in school knowledge, and from the perspective of anti-racist teaching we review some achievements and propaedeutic knowledge developed by black women scientists who contributed to the progress of science and technology. We understand that the achievements of these women scientists become a reference for black youth in high school. The relevance of this research is due to the attempt to overcome the monocultural character of the Eurocentric curriculum in the teaching of chemistry in high school, and with the premise of highlighting the achievements of black women in science, and this action becomes a measure of anti-racist pedagogical action (BRAZIL , 2004). The research adopted as its normative and epistemic guide the deliberations of Federal Law No. 10,639/2003 and the Curricular Guidelines for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations (2004), and we sought, by historicizing the teaching of chemistry, to reveal its monocultural Eurocentric character, to thus, propose the inclusion of content related to the actions of black women scientists and their corroboration for the progress of science, in the high school curriculum. The result of the research brought together the achievements of black women scientists, Brazilian and African, and our understanding is that they become pedagogical tools to become an identity reference for young black people, in demonstration of overcoming patriarchal, racist and classist oppressions, and of others that promote distinction due to the character of the difference. We understand that this opportunity to accumulate propaedeutic knowledge enhances the construction of the intellectual trajectory of these young people in high school, and we also consider it to be a way of increasing interest in developing research in higher education, a demonstration of incentive to take the Brazilian National High School Examination - ENEM