NEGO VEIO PROFESSOR

ancestry, decolonization and reenchantment of education

Abstract

The article traces the paths from the knowledge based on Afro-Brazilian and indigenous practices with the guidance of the ancestral teacher Pai Joaquim da Calunga, a Preto Velho who goes to a Terreiro de Umbanda located in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro. Whirling in the civilizing molds of a hegemonic culture, crossing other possibilities of being and being in the world, inciting the creative power of students, with Banda and Quimbanda, mixing plural bodies that circulate in school spaces and that often instill the idea of being doomed to certain negative ends on the outskirts, is that we are going to make the rounds spin. In the logic of an Education as an experience of freedom of being and of accumulation and exchange of vital force, like axé, the responsibility is to establish a point in a piece of curricular vine and untie the knots of colonial violence, exercising the fluidity of the different possible paths. Therefore, this article is based on the idea that it is not always possible to avoid the death of the physical body, but it is possible to re-enchant the world through the power of life.