Decolonizing Natural Sciences, Environmental and Health Education: Reflections from a Continuous Teacher Training Experience

Abstract

In this chapter we share a journey through theoretical perspectives, actions, experiences and reflections that have outlined our collective pathways with the intention of decolonizing a field we call Natural Sciences, Environmental and Health Education. In dialogue with a Continuous Teacher Training experience for the primary level, held virtually in 2021 for our entire country (Argentina), we will seek to deepen our collective reflections in order to enrich our pedagogical perspectives. In the course, we proposed a critical and comprehensive analysis of regional eco-territorial and socio-sanitary crises and conflicts, in order to understand close and complex realities, which, in turn, are regarded as a part of the planetary crisis. We sought to put into play the socio-cultural diversity of the territories in order to generate a dialogue of knowledges, feelings and ways of living in which scientific, popular, indigenous knowledge, among others, were to be exchanged. Recovering the voices of students, tutors and authors of materials, we inquire about the resignifications of the perspective of the course in their post-pandemic practices.