THE GIRL FROM OYÁ

DECOLONIAL AND INCLUSIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to seek to affirm Candomblé as a community of knowledge, based on African nuances and ancestry, (re)invented in the breaches and fissures of a violated colonial Brazil, extractive and expropriator of humanities denied to peoples and cultures that were extirpated from their territories and enslaved in absentia. And, in this sense, capable of contributing to the school environment, guided by anti-racist, inclusive and decolonial principles. The discussion is inspired by the possible otherness from the narrative of a young woman, born and educated in a Candomblé terreiro, on the occasion of narrative meetings during the months of January and February 2022, in the city of Campinas-SP, for a research PhD in Education, in progress. Faced with the need to affirm her existence at school, at the beginning of her schooling, the young woman re-signifies the experience of herself and, perhaps, of others, by dialoguing and sharing her cosmoperception with her peers.