Phenomena as mediators in science education and mathematics in the Educação do Campo (Education for and by the countryside)

Abstract

From the study of the phenomena, we present in this article the possibilities of its uses in the Educação do Campo (Education for and by the countryside) as a concept that articulates Natural Sciences and Mathematics, materiality and, reality. From an experience in the Educação do Campo course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, we analyze the strategies adopted and the paths followed in the studies of concepts from the natural sciences and mathematics in the delimitation of the natural dimension of phenomena in the life context of the undergraduate’s students. Based on this experience and inspired by phenomenology, we discuss the role and potential of phenomena as mediator and organizer of the knowledge coproduced with the world.

Keywords

• Phenomena
• Science Education and Mathematics
• Rural Education