The pedagogical work in Science Education: a look at the cultural diversity of the field

In this study, we aim to analyze how the pedagogical work in science teaching, focused on the context of the field, has been characterized in its socio-historical and epistemological dimension regarding cultural diversity. For this, we carried out a literature review in journals in the area of Education and Teaching in which we found 27 studies. The analysis of such works was developed using Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), from the category, namely: socio-historical and epistemological dimension of cultural diversity in pedagogical work in sciences from/to the field. Among the results, it was possible to infer that the perception about the implications of cultural diversity in the teaching and learning process seems to be unanimous. The discussions focus on the integration of diversity in the teaching process from different strategies, either in basic education or in higher education, articulating specific curricular proposals or the organization of activities that take into account the specificities of the field. However, most works do not theoretically deepen the relationship between science teaching and reality in the context of the cultural diversity of the field, especially when it comes to the relationship between traditional/ancestral and scientific knowledge, academic piracy processes, silencing and inter-epistemic conflicts.