FOR A DECOLONIAL AND ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION: AFRO-DESCENDANT POETRY RESIGNIFYING HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS
Society. Culture. Afroascending literature. Education.
This dissertation, which is entitled: For a decolonial and anti-racist education: Afro-descendant poetry resignifying historical representations, consists of an investigation about the Afro-descendant poetry in pedagogical practices educational and if this is used for educational purposes to build the identity, Afro-Brazilian culture and fight against racism in the classroom. And regarding the specific objectives we have: to realize the emergence of racial theories in the Brazilian context and the anti-racist struggles in Brazil of the XX/XXI century, that make it possible to identify the spaces and powers of Afro-Brazilian poetry; as well as defining the categories of analysis such as decolonial education, racism, Afro-descendant poetry; reflect on the construction of identity in pedagogical practices involving Afro-descendant poetry, contrasting the model of education that privileges freedom with traditional pedagogy and describing pedagogical practices that use Afro-descendant poetry in the classroom; investigate if Afro poetryBrazilian positive influence on the identity process of students who self-declare afro-descendant in the perspective of teachers investigate if they have successful experiences with african poetry based on personal experiences as a poet/ poet or teaching literature in the face of commitment to ethnic-cultural of the students who enter the school space. And because it is a research linked to social, human, literary and pedagogical issues with subjective and multifactorial pretensions, it is chosen the qualitative research mode being bibliographic and field. As techniques for the collection of information are observations and interviews, and to analyze the data is chosen by discourse analysis and hermeneutics as a general method as an instrument to interpret and understand object of study.