PROCESSOS DE ALTERIZAÇÃO E CURRICULOS CTS: PESQUISA EM DESIGN DE SEQÜÊNCIAS DIDÁTICAS SOBRE PROCESSOS DE ALTERIZAÇÃO NAS CIÊNCIAS BIOMÉDICAS A PARTIR DA HISTÓRIA DO RACISMO CIENTÍFICO

Entidad financiadora: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAPESB)/Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, Brazil)/Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)-Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil) (TO BOL0013/2012)

I.P.: Juanma Sánchez Arteaga

Fecha de inicio-fin: 01 / 02 / 2012 – 01 / 07 / 2013

This research Project was intended to contribute to the historical analysis of social implications of Biological Sciences, more specifically, the ideological function of naturalistic, evolutionary and biomedical discourses about human nature and human diversity both sides of the Atlantic, from the Enlightenment to 21st century. It focused on the study of scientific discourses about human nature, human diversity and human health -along with some of the technoscientific practises accompanying those discourses- as ideological tools for the naturalisation and scientific legitimation of othering processes and social hierarchies and systems of social domination -based especially in racial categories- during this period. My analysis is especially focused in some particular features of the development of biomedical anthropological thought in different occidental countries both side of the Atlantic, such as Spain, Brazil, Portugal, France, the U.S. and the U.K., from 18th to 20th centuries. Another main objective of this research was to derive some implications for science education and STS curricula.

This project set the basis for a long term research partnership with researchers from two Brazilian Universities, with whom we developed further projects after this one was finished. My next research grant in the Regional Scientific Development project (DCR), funded by FAPESB and the CNPq, was a direct continuation of this project. Among its main results, this project produced different publications in excellent specialised journals such as Manguinhos or Science & Education. In addition, different educational innovations focused on the history of Scientific Racism both sides of the Atlantic were designed and implemented in two brazilian Universities, in colaboration with internationally recognised researchers in Science Education such as Dr. Charbel Niño El-Hani or Dr. Cláudia Sepúlveda.

Algunos resultados del proyecto: