The Methods and Effects of Anti-racist Education in a Non Formal Education Course, called Natureza and Axé
Anti-racist Education;Non Formal Education;Education in Terreiros
This research aims to broaden reflections on the fulfillment of the goals of the SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals by Brazil, from the diagnosis of the CTTro - Traditional Terreiro Community and its other adherents of religions of African matrix, as a way of organizing to put into practice such demands determined by Agenda 2030 of the UN - United Nations. In Brazil and in the world there are heterogeneous destabilizing situations generated by problems related to hunger, poverty, inequality, lack of basic sanitation, social injustice, among other obstacles that imply in the living conditions of future generations. To soften the controversies, an online course is created together with a babalorixá, with the desire to present, know, and discuss the aspects of the SDGs in consonance with the cosmovision of African and Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, as a way to promote a dignified life for the terreiro people, as a way to eradicate intolerance, imbalances, religious racism, violence, discrimination, racism, and education, supported by the ambitious 2030 Agenda, in the understandings of SDG number 04 - Quality Education, in non-formal education, in literacies, and in the Federal Laws 10. 639/2003 e 11.645/2008. The meetings were held virtually, promoted by LIVES, where religious leaders, practitioners of religions of African matrix and other adherents. The research was carried out through records of the situations experienced in this space of non-formal education and interviews. For a better understanding with reference to the issues touched upon in affirmative action, it was necessary to analyze the construction of the category negro (GOMES, 2003, 2010, 2017; MUNANGA, 2004, 2005), the relationship between race and coloniality (QUIJANO, 2010), as well as other themes that emerged for the understanding of positivities and ethno-racial relations in CTTro. The ponderings germinated by the research invite us to rethink about the practices and forms of letramantos for the historical rescue and strengthening of the "terreiro ground," provoking new destructuring crossroads to the hierarchical, Eurocentric, intolerant and racist patterns that disqualify Afro-Brazilians and those who practice religions of African matrix.