Science and Biology Education: strange, non-human loves, conversations & alliances with plants and other ways of narrating life

Abstract

Fauna, flora, environments and living beings, as well as the ecological, cultural and social relations between them and us humans, and, equally, everything that happens to them/us in given times and spaces, are articulated with what we call Science and/or Biology education in the scope of school and university education. Non-humans are deeply articulated with Literature, Visual Arts, Anthropology, Life Sciences, Scientific Dissemination and, especially, with the daily life of humans – but they seem to affect, still timidly, school classrooms and teacher education classrooms. In this sense, the text seeks to list possibilities of encounters between humans and non-humans at school and outside it.