PRIMAVERA SILENCIOSA: UM OLHAR A PARTIR DAS PERSPECTIVAS INTER E TRANSDISCIPLINAR

Abstract

In this work, we propose an analysis of the book Silent Spring, by the writer, biologist and North American scientist Rachel Carson, under the aspect of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. In the book, the author addresses the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals; however this work give a different look to the work. This research is of bibliographic character. Therefore, we have some references that deal with the work of the author, as well as documents of the MEC and authors that address these issues. We consider Carson a scientist with a literary vein, a science disseminator whose text of the research she elaborated provided us with elements to discuss inter and transdisciplinarity, and we could see its influence in science teaching. Aware that reading and literature are sources of learning in the subject's training process, regardless of the area of teaching, we believe it was useful to recall the work of Rachel Carson. The need for articulation with related areas of Biology or others, the taste for knowledge sharing, the humility to go to other specialists denotes in Carson the interdisciplinary action, because it would be impossible, attending to a discipline, to show the chain of events harmful effects that pesticides cause on the environment, living things and people. The transdisciplinary characteristics that we propose to have in the author's text are related to the coexistence of literature and biology, in which the poetic coexists with scientific rigor, and in this sense she teaches us that this coexistence is possible and necessary. In addition to the sensitivity and philosophical concern of existing in the world are part of the work. We characterized it as a holistic, marked by the systemic view, when we emphasized that transdisciplinary is part of holism.