ABSTRACT:
The text corresponds to a critical review, whose first version substantiated analyzes and discussions related to field experiences produced in a qualitative research (SÁNCHEZ MOLANO, 2020) in school institutions in the periphery of a Latin American metropolis. Throughout the text, we will be accompanied by the Epistemologies of the South, whose main ideas give consistency to the argumentative thread, in relation to propositions about counter-hegemonic science, contemporary science, Latin American environmentalism and to the notion of ecology of knowledge, as well as to science teaching that can be anchored in those propositions. It advances in the understanding of the scientific practice from the postulates of epistemological pragmatism and methodological pluralism, which would be complementary to educational perspectives inspired by critical interculturality and insurgent environmental education. In the light of the foregoing, nomenclature revisions are proposed in the field of science teaching, more compatible with emancipatory perspectives projected from Latin America.
Keywords:
Latin America; counter-hegemonic science; science teaching; critical interculturality; environmental weavings