Abstract

SANTOS, TARYN SOFIA ABREU DOS  and  KATO, DANILO SEITHI. THE BODY AS A DISCOURSE BETWEEN CAPOEIRA AND SCIENCE EDUCATION: POSSIBLE INTERCULTURAL GINGAS. Educ. rev. [online]. 2025, vol.41, e46030.  Epub Jan 10, 2025. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-469846030.

The purpose of this paper was to build intercultural gingas between traditional Afro-Brazilian knowledge and science education, considering the educational processes expressed through the body. Ginga is a bodily representation that expresses negotiation in capoeira. In this way, intercultural gingas constitute dialogues based on the theoretical frameworks of critical interculturalism. They were outlined through research carried out at the Master's level, in a community with remaining African ancestry that receives the intervention of the Green Room, an extension action of the Federal University of Bahia within the scope of Science Education. The territory experiencing the quilombola certification process is São Francisco do Paraguaçu (Bahia) and since 2014 has been affected by this proposal anchored in the assumptions of Science, Technology, and Society. Empirical data were collected through semi-structured interviews with capoeira masters in the region, based on their discursive references to traditional Afro-Brazilian knowledge, and scientific literature. These lenses made it possible to monitor the pedagogical mediations performed by the Green Room with residents, in the course during an ethnographic immersion as conceptualized by Restrepo. The interface of this relationship was conceived from the perspective of the body as a socio-historical discourse in Bakhtin's conceptions, resulting in intercultural gingas of dissensus that deny racial-ethnic difference, and mark it based on inferior hierarchical, and gingas of consensus that treat cultural difference with reciprocity.

Keywords : Interculturalism; Capoeira; Science Education; Decoloniality.

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