Abstract

MEIRA, Flávia Paola Félix  and  OLIVEIRA, Julvan Moreira de. AYOLUWA, THE HAPPINESS OF OUR PEOPLE: the book Olhos D’água, a yeast for antiracist educationAbstract. Revista Teias [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.71, pp.10-23.  Epub Feb 28, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2022.70283.

This work aims at reflecting on the possibilities of applying the Teaching Afro-Brazilian History and Culture and the National Curriculum Guidelines for Ethnic-Racial Relations Education (DCNERER) in both initial and continuing teacher education from the use of Conceição Evaristo’s book, Olhos d’Água, as a didactic resource. We chose this author based on the reflections and troubles presented by Anzaldúa (2000) in her paper titled “Falando em línguas: uma carta para as mulheres escritoras do terceiro mundo”, which invites black women to write so that they can show their difficulties and burdens along the writing process as a strategy of deliverance. Our proposal consists of identifying how some goals and recommendations in the DCNERER, which claim for the construction of a more plural and diverse curriculum, can be approached from the use of the book Olhos d’Água as a didactic resource in the classroom or in teacher education programmes, creating thus a space for healthy debates and critical reflections. In order to build a curriculum that can embrace what the DCNERER suggests, it is necessary to allow the voices like Conceição Evaristo’s echo and announce their existence, occupying those places of the so-called canon works, fighting against the epistemicide and counter-colonizing such territory of power and dispute, be it either in higher education or in basic education.

Keywords : curriculum; teacher education; DCNERER.

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