Analysis of the historical process of the use of the English language as an instrument for the universalization of science
This work aims to analyze the historical process of the use of the English language as an instrument for the universalization of science, aiming to understand the Anglo-American and Eurocentric hegemonic oppressive discourses present in the process of internationalization of Brazilian universities. This analysis will be carried out based on documentary bibliographical research, based on the perspectives of Southern and Decolonial Epistemologies. In order to carry out the main objectives of this research, the starting point was the following research question: In what ways are the use of hegemonic imperialist discourses used to support the English language as an instrument for the universalization of science in the process of internationalization of universities? Therefore, it was necessary to answer two other questions: (1) How can understanding the historical process of using the English language contribute to recognizing the impacts caused in scientific production?; (2) What are the possible impacts caused by monolingualism on national scientific production and on Science Teaching and History? To answer them, the following methodologies were chosen: documentary bibliographical research, qualitative approach tools and Content Analysis. The corpus analyzed was composed of Public Notice nº 41/2017, referring to the “Institutional Program of Internationalization Capes/PrInt”, prepared by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), and by the “Institutional Plan of Internationalization”, of the Federal University do ABC (UFABC), with the objective of consolidating the hypotheses about some of its relations with the process of internationalization of universities. From the elaboration of a series of categories of analysis, it was evaluated in which ways the English language has been compulsorily used in the academic sphere, as well as in the process of internationalization of universities. The results of this research can be applied in didactic sequences in the Teaching of History of Science and Mathematics, enabling a critical view of the referred process, in an attempt to value the production and dissemination of national scientific knowledge.