Manifesto por um currículo e uma educação de encruzilhadas: uma questão de vida-e-morte

Abstract

The development of curricula and pedagogies is the result of historical processes of exploitation, patriarchy, colonialism, and racism within the capitalist system. It is noted that curricula, pedagogical practices, and sciences are the outcome of a historical erasure of 'other' knowledge. Sueli Carneiro points out the erasure or death of Black thought, especially in Brazil; 'This is how Black people leave history to enter the sciences, the transition from slavery to freedom represented the shift from being a work object to being a research object' (Carneiro, 2023, p. 58). The author defines the phenomenon as epistemicide, which doesn’t only happen in the realm of class and labor divisions; it occurs in a systemic, cyclical, and inseparable way. In this sense: “It’s necessary to challenge the organizational structure.” This text, written like a manifesto, pushes us and motivates us to think about what we lose and miss out on as individuals when we don’t connect with the ancestral knowledge of traditional peoples. So, by coming together with other pedagogical practices, we reach the crossroads, Rufino (2018), diverging from the science based on the global north, which claims that only polarized truths exist. The pedagogies of the crossroads show us that there are different paths and a convergence between different ways of life and relationships with them, meaning, there are no distinctions or hierarchies.