PEDAGOGIA ECO-ANCESTRAL: CAMINHOS PARA (R)EXISTÊNCIA DE INFÂNCIAS NEGRAS

Abstract

This article seeks to discuss and problematize the historical and legal trajectory of early childhood education, the first stage of education, from the exclusion of blackness in the historical and pedagogical process, which makes black culture and epistemology invisible. It presents the efforts of the women's movement and the black movement to guarantee the right to education. Through a bibliographic review, he points out the official legal documents that ratify the teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture in early childhood education, as well as proposing the breaking of practices that silence and marginalize black bodies, presenting the path of Eco-Ancestral Pedagogy (Oliveira, 2019) as a theoretical, practical and methodological possibility of modifying structural paradigms that reproduce racism among Education professionals. Finally, based on Eco-Ancestral Pedagogy, we ratify the importance of problematizing the methods and materials used in teaching units, understanding the experiences and relationships that are affirmed in early childhood education institutions with children through the mediation of teachers, problematizing their realities and their stories, in a critical effort and consciously aimed at guaranteeing an anti-racist education, thus avoiding harmful consequences for black children and adults, as well as for the whole society.