Carol Martinez Camacho: Breaking the Wall of Definition of Life 

Through ana-dialectic methodology, we’ll implement the design of pluriversal school spaces to problematise the definition of the fundamental unit of life (the cell), introducing indigenous ethics and metaphysics, as well as methodologies and knowledges, into the substantive content of science education. We seek to understand the impact on students’ onto-epistemological orientations of science education as a site of socio-political struggle.

Carol is a PhD student in the University of Canterbury, interpellated by the poorly represented interculturality in the undergraduate curricula.
She holds a BSc in Genomic Sciences from UNAM (Mexico) and an MSc in Integrative Biology from CINVESTAV (Mexico). Through communicating science in a culturally relevant way to foster the interest of indigenous children and youth in the areas of STEM, she seeks to increase diversity in academia to enable the production of knowledge based on a principle of solidarity.