Diálogos Interculturais entre Conhecimentos Tradicionais e Conhecimentos Científicos em uma Comunidade Geraizeira: um Olhar Freiriano na Licenciatura em Educação do Campo

This study aims to analyze the potential of intercultural exchanges on science teaching, using a Freirian perspective at the formative path and experiences of an undergraduate student of a teacher training course in rural Education at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (Lecampo/UFTM), Brazil, belonging to a traditional Geraizeira community. For that matter, an ethnographic immersion was carried out in the Geraizeira community of Pindaiba, in Rio Pardo de Minas-MG, in order to get to know and experience their reality and way of life. From this, three categories of analysis emerged that reveal the importance of genuine dialogue between cultures, in the sense proposed by Freire, when we think about the formation of science teachers in Rural Education. The results showed that living and sharing traditional knowledge in the community is a common practice among residents, which is shared from generation to generation. This was the case of shade-grown coffee. Lastly, we conclude that recognizing the value of experience throughout space and time allows the construction of communication between traditional and scientific knowledge, which starts at school and can be fully grasped with the dynamics of the Pedagogy of Alternation.