Religião Popular : o que a escola pública tem a ver com isso? Pistas para repensar o ensino de ciências

Abstract

The scientific knowledge constitutes itself as hegemonic in the human history excluding from the validity circles other ways of knowledge. Understanding the religion as a expression of popular culture, representative of popular groups knowledge, I question the Secularization Theory of modern society, from analyzing the evangelic phenomenon that Brazil is passing through today. From this knowledge on, using the science teaching as a cutting, and in specific way the tension between the creationism and the evolutionism teaching, I set up the possibilities of overcoming the knowledge prejudice that exists at public schools and show up the possibilities that these schools become a place for a wholesome conflict of knowledge that, through dialogue, knowledge circularity and the epistemological double rupture, allow a movement from the Cartesian paradigm to a paradigm based on a complex thought, resulting into the shared building of knowledge in the public school.