Letramento Estatístico para empoderar a convivência com o Semiárido.

Abstract

A scenario of political dispute was formed from two paradigms, one that ights against drought and one that coexists with the semiarid region, generating diferent narratives based on statistical knowledge to be validated or rejected. The paradigm of combating drought proved corrupt and inefective, placing the Brazilian Semiarid in a context of neglect, with the absence of public policies. The paradigm of coexistence with the semiarid, on the contrary, seeks to rescue respect for the cultural diversities of the various existing peoples and territories, the sustainability of water resources, the relationship with nature and agroecological practices, coexistence technologies, and food sovereignty. This intense context of dispute requires the development of skills that enable a new way of experiencing the current world consciously in the face of what occurs with a critical and relective posture. An important element with the potential to develop critical attitudes and empowerment is statistical literacy, which is related to attitudes towards statistical information that we surround daily and how we deal critically with graphs, tables, and other statistical elements. In this sense, the objective of this chapter is to bring a problematization that indicates a theoretical-methodological path that can relate a process of continuing education based on statistical literacy and contextualized with the assumptions of the paradigm of coexistence with the semiarid region.