O samba vai à escola: o samba de roda como prática pedagógica decolonial

Abstract

Samba goes to school: samba de roda as a decolonial pedagogical practice is a study on the insertion of this Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestation within the school context. In this sense, the education that the Brazilian population obtained came from a Eurocentric perspective that silenced Afro-Brazilian, indigenous and African cultures. Within schools, the colonizer's cultures were perpetuated to be reproduced/valued/exalted, and Brazilian culture as folkloric and secondary was “honored” on August 22nd, considered Brazilian folklore day. On this day, schools emphasize samba de roda and capoeira as Brazilian folkloric manifestations. In this understanding, this study sought to investigate samba de roda in the school context in order to demystify that samba de roda is a Brazilian folk element, but a manifestation that can be worked on in an interdisciplinary way as a proposal for a decolonial pedagogical practice capable of contributing to an intercultural and anti-racist education. Thus, this dissertation has the general objective of analyzing how it would be possible to build a pedagogical proposal about samba de roda at school. In this way, it consists of problematizing how teachers can insert samba de roda into their classrooms. In this sense, I tried to raise this question: how could I build a pedagogical proposal about samba de roda in a school in the city of Candeias-Bahia? Through practical moments during the pedagogical workshops, field diaries and photographic records, I sought an interaction/articulation between decolonial pedagogical practices and samba de roda within the school context. The research revealed that it is possible to insert samba de roda into school spaces from an interdisciplinary perspective, however, there is a need for public policies aimed at making this practice viable and visible within schools. The research presents conceptual reflections on the students' experiences at school and the interaction with the samba de roda samba dancers from the Passé district of the Candeias/ Bahia Municipality. Thus, the research highlights that there is still a lack of incentive, commitment, investment and public cultural policies aimed at performing samba de roda and other Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations within the educational environments of Bahia and Brazil.