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Course Description: This course addresses human evolution in the Old and New World using archaeological, paleoanthropological, and genetic evidence. The class consists of weekly lectures (3 credits) and discussions (1 credit).
Course Description: This course is an advanced introduction to the field of archaeology that explores how archaeologists think about the archaeological record and the methods they use to study ancient and contemporary societies. Major topics that will be discussed include site formation processes, field techniques and research design, dating methods, artifact analysis, and the archaeological study of social organization and human-environment relationships. We will also explore approaches to diversifying archaeology, including black, feminist, queer, and indigenous archaeologies. We will examine how the discipline has integrated recent social movements (e.g., #MeToo and Black Lives Matter) with the goal of bringing a greater awareness of inclusivity and ethically committed practices. By the end of the course, students will be capable of critically reflecting upon socially engaged perspectives and on how to conduct archaeology within a decolonizing framework.
2020
Programa de curso da disciplina "Antropologia Simétrica", ministrada em 2020 no Programa Associado de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia (UFC/UNILAB).
2013
Verifica-se um fértil intercâmbio entre filósofos e biólogos, de modo especial nas investigações contemporâneas sobre a evolução humana. Avalio, inicialmente, o compatibilismo como postura filosófica, que coloca em evidência a possibilidade de que hábitos de interpretação, com base numa psicologia de senso comum, tenham desempenhado um papel na evolução em nossa linhagem. Essa hipótese pode lançar luz sobre dilemas que surgem na construção de uma teoria que pressuponha a interação entre modalidades genética e cultural de herança. Para que a cultura desempenhe essa função, é necessário que evoluam capacidades especiais para a aprendizagem social, que estariam associadas a capacidades para interpretar o comportamento de agentes. Num registro metafísico, discuto as condições para que grupos culturais possam ser considerados indivíduos no sentido de unidades de seleção. Num registro metodológico, eu analiso também o emprego de modelos matemáticos em tentativas de se construir cenários p...
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF HUMANS? SCIENCE EXPLAINS!: A PROPOSAL FOR SCIENTIFIC DIFFUSION ON HUMAN EVOLUTION, 2019
O tema Evolução Humana é considerado importante matéria curricular a ser ensinada na escola, isso por ser uma forma de conhecimento acerca da história evolutiva de nossa espécie. Ao mesmo tempo, sua abordagem em sala de aula gera controvérsias devido a uma série de fatores, como religiosidade e antropocentrismo. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi propor um produto educacional de apoio ao professor no ensino de evolução da espécie humana, visando a divulgação científica do tema. Para tanto, o material produzido teve o intuito de disponibilizar o conhecimento científico produzido por cientistas nessa área do conhecimento. Tal divulgação científica foi disponibilizada em formato de website, visando não só o uso desse produto educacional em sala de aula, mas também o contato com a comunidade em geral, por ser uma ferramenta de fácil acesso. Após ser submetido a duas etapas de validação e considerado adequado por especialistas, conclui-se que o material apresentado no artigo é significativo para o ensino de Evolução Humana. Palavras-chave: Produto Educacional, Evolução Humana, Website, Ensino de Ciências. ABSTRACT Human evolution is considered an important subject to be taught in school because it is a way of knowing about the evolutionary history of our kind. At the same time, its approach in the classroom has brought controversies due to many factors related to religiosity and anthropocentrism. This research aims to propose an educational product to support teachers on the teaching of human evolution seeking the scientific dissemination about the topic. To do so, the material produced was designed to make the scientific knowledge produced by scientists available in the area of Human Evolution. Because of being an easy access tool, this scientific dissemination was provided on website format seeking for, especially, the use of it in the classroom but also the contact with the whole interested community. After being
The purpose of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the apprehension of scientific discourse by students and possible obstacles posed by their religious beliefs, by scrutinizing the interaction between adherence to evolutionary theory and the presence of such beliefs, as well as analyzing the influences identified by the students themselves. The development of both current evolutionary theory and the Christian creationist movement were exposed, as well as their disputes in the teaching of the topic. These disputes were revealed during the application of a questionnaire to students from two public schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro-RJ, which sought to comprehend their understanding of the origin and diversity of life. For this purpose, the presente study was based on the theory of Social Representations, seeking to investigate whether the students' responses were anchored in scientific explanations or in religious discourses, using the Collective Subject Discourse (DSC) technique for analysis. The results pointed out the permanence of religious explanations in the students of one of the schools, and the prevalence of scientific explanations among the students of the other. The difference in adherence to biological evolution found among students was due to some factors analyzed: physical structure of the school, diversity of teaching techniques, and the influence that students attribute to the school environment. The greater this influence, the greater the number of students whose discourse was anchored in scientific explanations, including religious ones, who did not have to give up their beliefs. When the school's influence was less felt, students turned to what was familiar to them: religious explanations. The analysis of their speeches pointed out that religious beliefs were not impediments to understanding and adhering to scientific explanations, since students from both schools had shown curiosity and interest in the natural world. The school's role, therefore, is to foster such curiosity, having a constant presence in the students' imagination, and providing them with the necessary means to explore the natural world and understand scientific explanations, contributing to their citizenship education.
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