Dissertation--Universität Bonn, 2004. / Textes en allemand et en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 128-142.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Peter A. Hess. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Trier, 1996. / Bibliogr. p. 264-279.

Society’s current experience of nature is ambiguous. Just as nature proves severely affected by human activities and vulnerable, it also appears threatening to us. Although the changes in nature have been perceived for long as an ecological crisis, this experience and the challenges it provides have remained persistently exigent over the last four decades. As a consequence, our epistemological understanding of nature and culture as separate entities has been inherently shaken. My study is located among ecocritical attempts to negotiate these experiences. Immanent critiques of E. O. Wilson’s and Bruno Latour’s epistemologies exemplify how we cannot escape the dualism in society’s relationship to nature by simply declaring nature’s and culture’s unity. Relying on the social philosophy of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, I instead consider the dualism as historically both true and false, and argue that instrumental reason provides a socio-psychological barrier to transcending the way Western society relates to nature. Central to the situation’s perpetuation is the confidence that the object of knowledge can be adequately and steadily identified in knowledge. Based on Adorno’s negative dialectics, I develop a model of cognition that works through the dualism within the knowing subject and in its relation to animals. This model is substantiated in the context of Enlightenment thought. A reconstruction of the development of René Descartes’ (1596–1650) epistemology in relation to his philosophy of nature and the place of animals within it shows the animal as particularly resistant to Descartes’ conceptual identification. In the writings on animal behaviour of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) this resistance further manifests as a self-mediation of animals, which denotes the limits to their conceptual assimilation. Maria Sibylla Merian’s (1647–1717) aesthetically mediated insect studies capture this tension between species commonalities and unique particularities, and represent the single specimens as nonidentical individuals. Through critical engagement with these works, my study develops a cognitive approach to nature that preserves its object as qualitatively mediated between universal and particular properties, and inherently nonidentical. Simultaneously, it recovers the animal as an object of knowledge particularly resistant to identificatory thought. Consolidating these two insights, aesthetic mediation of animals provides an experience that reveals to the subject its limited power over the objects and which is capable of raising the memory of nature within the subject.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2006

Acompanha: Guia de construção do insetário virtual / Esta dissertação apresenta uma pesquisa qualitativa investigando como os métodos observacionais de Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) podem contribuir para o ensino de Biologia, mais especificamente, de um grupo de organismos fundamentais para a manutenção do equilíbrio biológico: os insetos, através da mediação dos smartphones e Instagram. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa-ação, desenvolvida em espiral reflexiva, com os estudantes de uma escola pública, situada na região metropolitana de Curitiba, PR. O principal objetivo da pesquisa foi investigar as contribuições dos métodos de estudo de Maria Sibylla Merian, artista e cientista renascentista, para o ensino-aprendizagem dos insetos, com a construção coletiva de um insetário virtual, mediado pelas TIC. No percurso da pesquisa, investigou-se a história e a filosofia dos trabalhos de Merian no estudo dos insetos e com os smartphones e Instagram, desenvolveu-se, com os estudantes da Escola Básica, uma experiência tecnológica capaz de potencializar a mediação das TIC. Foi realizado, nessa pesquisa, as seguintes etapas: desenvolvimento do “Guia de Construção do Insetário Virtual” com os estudantes do segundo ano do Ensino Médio, a gravação das aulas em áudio, anotações das aulas em diário de campo e questionário final. Após os resultados e tratando-se de uma pesquisa-ação com característicase metodologias próprias, discutimos o processo realizado conforme sugere a espiral auto reflexiva. A história e a filosofia dos trabalhos de Maria Sibylla Merian embasaram o planejamento das sequências didáticas com o intuito de construir coletivamente o insetário virtual. Essas sequências foram elaboradas seguindo os momento pedagógicos propostos por Demétrio Delizoicov, José André Angotti e Marta Maria Pernambuco: problematização, organização do conhecimento e aplicação do conhecimento, em uma metodologia problematizadora e dialógica proposta por Paulo Freire e, fundamentada na complexidade e racionalidade dos saberes de Edgar Morin, Jean Ladriere, Jacques Ardoino, além de Neil Postman e C. P. Snow como referencial de TIC. Os dados foram categorizados segundo a matriz investigativa. Os resultados mostraram que a obra de Maria Sibylla Merian, transposta para a relação de ensino-aprendizagem dos insetos contribui significativamente para a apropriação dos conhecimentos desses seres vivos pelos estudantes, permite a eles um olhar da ciência e da arte e, ainda, problematiza o papel das TIC na escola básica.Concluímos que o “Guia de Construção do Insetário Virtual”, produto dessa dissertação de mestrado proporciona um trabalho diferenciado nas aulas de Biologia e que outros trabalhos unindo a arte, a ciência e as TIC são possíveis em sala de aula, em uma relação dialógica, problematizadora e de iniciação à complexidade dos saberes. / This thesis presents a qualitative research exploring as the way observed by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717) that can contribute to the learning of Biology, more especifically of a fundamental grupo of mobster for a maintance ofan equilibrium: the insects by the mediation of smartphones and Instagram. It was about an action research developed information in reflexive spiral with students of a public school, located in Curitiba - PR metropolitan zone. The main objective of the research was investigate the study methods contributions of Maria Sibylla Merian, renaissence artist and scientist, to the teaching and learning the insects with a collective built of a virtual insectarium mediated by TIC. In the way of the research,it was investigate the history and the philosophy about Merian’s works in study of insects and with smartphones and Instagram, it developed with students of basic school a technology experience able of empower the mediation of the TIC. It was made in the research the following stages: development of a built of a “ guide insectarium “ with the second grade of high school students, the recording classes in audio, classes annotation in a field diary and a final questionnaire. After the results, as if it is an action research with own methodology characteristics, we discussed the process realized according to suggest the reflective self-spiral. The history and the philosophy about Maria Sibylla Merianfound the planning of the didactic sequences with intention of the collectively built a virtual insectarium. These sequences were elaborated following the pedagogics moments offered by Demétrio Delizoicov, José André Angotti and Marta Maria Pernambuco: questioning, learning organization and learning aplication in a questioning methodology and a proposal dialogic by Paulo Freire and found in a complexity and rationality of the Knowledge of the Edgar Morin, Jean Ladriere, Jacques Ardoino beyond of Neil Postman and C. P. Snow as referencial of the TIC. The dates were categorized according with the investigate head office. The results present that the works Maria Sibylla Merian takes to a relation of the teaching and learning insects, contribute significantly to the appropriation of the learning these living being by students, allowing them a look at the science and art and even discuss the role of TIC in basic school. We concluded that the “construction of a virtual guide of an insectarium”, it provides differential work in Biology classes and that offered enjoyable art and science works and the TIC are possible in classes, in a dialogics relationchip, problematization and the complexity of Knowledges.