Organic Knowledge and Technodiversity of Quilombola, Caiçara, and Indigenous Communities in the Construction of a Differentiated Technical Education

Abstract

This paper analyzes the actions of the Traditional Communities Forum (FCT) which, in different municipalities of Serra da Bocaina (RJ and SP), demands the right to a Differentiated Technical Education that includes its young people and their traditional cultures in the educational system, while at the same time being at the service of “technical and political solutions” that guarantee the autonomy and sustainability of those territories and ways of life. To this end, this article starts from the Latin American critical thinking that is the basis for the field of social studies of Science and Technology and suggests a dialogue between those authors – Florestan Fernandes, Rui Mauro Marine, Orlando Fals Borda, among others – with contemporary authors such as the Chinese Yuk Hui – who invites us to revisit the diversity of paths for scientific and technological work, associated with its purpose – and the Brazilian quilombola from Saco do Curtume-Piauí, Antônio Bispo do Santos, Nêgo Bispo and his invitation to the development of an organic knowledge that, in contrast to the synthetic knowledge largely produced in universities, is at the service of life.