The Ethnomathematics Program and sustainability within non-industrial fishery communities at Costa da Caparica/Portugal

• Grant number: 21/11281-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 01, 2022
• End date: January 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Ademir Donizeti Caldeira
• Grantee: Ademir Donizeti Caldeira
• Host Investigator: Mônica Maria Borges Mesquita
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

This proposal is intended to identify and discuss - through the perspective of the Ethnomathematics Program, of decoloniality and of ethnic-racial relations - sustainability processes in non-industrial fishery communities in Portugal. It consists of an investigation ethnographic type character, where information will be collected on how to develop the principles of the Ethnomathematics Program regarding the know-how of non-industrial fishers in fishery communities of Costa de Caparica in Portugal with the use of constructed artifacts for the manufacture of nets, for fishing strategies and other instruments that can be used by them for their survival and transcendence from scientific papers, articles, theses and dissertations published about this theme. The theoretical foundation is grounded on "epistemologies of the South", on decoloniality and on the ethnic-racial relations that involve not only educational but also socio-environmental and cultural aspects. With respect to the Ethnomathematics Program we will be basing the inextricable connection present in the triangle of life between myself the other and nature, and also the views, on the curricular triad: literacy, materiacy, and technocracy. The expected results are that the ethnomathematics present in the knowings and makings of the non-industrial fishers communities can contribute towards an intercultural interlocution, in the sense of sharing, not only the arts of non-industrial fishing in its economic aspect but, especially, in its socio-environmental and cultural relations searching for sustainable answers to non-industrial fishery art. (AU)