Investigações etnomatemáticas para além da sala de aula: saberes e fazeres de alunas e alunos do sétimo ano da Escola Municipalizada São Benedito

Abstract

Recognizing that we are the result of experiences, customs and traditions, which occur in the human need for survival and transcendence, allows us to understand that the school and the actions that emerge from it go beyond their own space, as they influence conceptions, sharing and resistance and , therefore, it constitutes a diffusing and transforming space. Thus, with this proposal, we aim to encourage situations as ethnomathematical investigations that enable the expression of knowledge and actions of seventh-year students at Escola Municipalizada São Benedito. In this sense, we ask: How can ethnomathematical investigations provide opportunities for seventh-year students at Escola Municipalizada São Benedito to construct written and oral expressions in order to share their knowledge and practices? As theoretical support, it was based on three fields that, in our view, complement each other: ethnomathematics, decoloniality and liberating education. Ubiratan D’Ambrosio describes that, among the main assumptions of ethnomathematics, those aimed at recognizing the production of knowledge and actions by any subject/community stand out. Turning to decoloniality requires recognizing oneself and others as transformed and changing subjects. Freire's liberating education is structured in the interaction between academic knowledge and experiential knowledge made as a form of resistance and the ability to be in the world and participate critically in it and, mediated by the world, announce transformation. Methodologically, bibliographic research was carried out, followed by documentary analysis, as well as the development of five moments during mathematics classes, with seventh-year students at Escola Municipalizada São Benedito, located in the town of São Benedito, municipality of Itaberaí-GO. The moments were called ethnomathematical investigations - i) Who am I? Who we are?; ii) Dreams: what dreams are we talking about?; iii) How much time do I ‘have’?; iv) What nature is around me? and v) What math is there in this? - and went through the process of recognizing the self, the other, perspectives and nature as a structuring element of human life. In the end, data triangulation was carried out, through observations, of the material produced by the students and the theoretical aspects highlighted, allowing the following axes of analysis to be listed: recognize; resist and transcend. Continuing to develop ethnomathematical investigations allowed us to problematize the existence of other knowledge and actions, of dreams as resistance and the recognition of the incompleteness of being through a free, curious, questioning dialogue. The school needs to know how to listen, attentive and curious listening, devoid of judgment. The student, upon realizing this listening, declares herself, brings her knowledge and actions to light, transforms herself by empowering herself to recognize, question, dream and act.