PEDAGOGICAL COVIVAL WITH YOUNG QUILOMBOLAS OF SANTA RITA DO BRACUÍ: THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY, FEELING OF BELONGING AND THE REENCOUNTER WITH NATURAL
Environmental education, sense of belonging, formative processes, Pedagogical Living, reencounter with the natural.
Modernity forms “individualized” beings in which the sense of community becomes less and less present. This hierarchy, which generates a feeling of superiority of the modern individual in relation to the natural environment, which contributed significantly to reach the socio-environmental chaos that we live today. To try to break this hierarchy that promotes deep inequalities, hierarchies and subjugation of cultural knowledge. We seek formative processes of Environmental Education that stimulates the dialogue between different worldviews through experiential experiences with other epistemologies, in which the sense of integration human being, collectivity and nature are present. This work aims to investigate, from youngsters from the community of Quilombolas Remnants of Santa Rita do Bracuí, the process of building their identity, the relationships with the sense of belonging and the perspective of the rescue of the natural, to reference formative processes. of environmental education. Some questions disturbed us during this research “how is the construction of the identity of the quilombola youth and what is the relationship of this construction with the feeling of belonging?” “Can quilombola culture bring contributions to the construction of an educational environment that helps in the formative process? Environmental Education? ”To try to answer these questions we used as a methodological strategy the“ Pedagogical Living ”which provided a learning based on dialogue. The reflections from the pedagogical coexistence, the sense of belonging and the reunion with the natural allowed us to think about formative processes and educational practices that cause a real transformation of the social and environmental issues imposed by modern society. That in meeting with this “natural being” we combat the man-nature dichotomy. The present work shows us different ways to consolidate an Environmental Education that breaks paradigms and opposes to a Eurocentric, hegemonic and colonial education.