Projeto “Griot”: didáticas e práticas pedagógicas para o ensino da cultura afro nas escolas - a experiência na comunidade remanescente quilombola “Colônia do Paiol”

Abstract

Despite the valuable political, juridical and social advances achieved over the time in order to valorizate the Afro culture and promote its approach in the classroom's context, we can verified that his real effectiveness in school's praxis still scarce and that even in a country with high miscigenation as Brazil, unfortunately the racism still strongly present in schools. In this sense, this article presents a project that encompasses didactic and pedagogical practices that aim to contribute to the approach and valorization of Afro culture in classroom, as well as to promote the empowerment of the youngs afrodescendents through critical reflection, deconstruction of negative stereotypes associated to the afrodescendent people and the effective fight against racism. Entitled "Griot" in reference to the african sages responsible to orally transmites the knowledge of their people, it is an interdisciplinary project, with an intersectional perspective, which is intended to be libertary, horizontal and dynamic, focused not on the passive appreciation of students but on they real participation and protagonism in the teaching-learning process. In order to realize this objectives, this project envolves activities like conversation wheels, poetry show, dynamics and workshops that passes through a several manifestations of the Afro culture like RAP, Breakdance, Graffiti, Capoeira, Funk and etc. This article also presents a detailed description of the development of this project, in a special edition realized on Black Conscience Day, in a remanescent quilombola community, called "Colônia do Paiol", localized in the rural area of the "Bias Fortes" city, in Minas Gerais.