Quilombola territories: the educational experience of a shared past for a communal future

Abstract

This writing is inspired by the experiences and dialogues that the research group Peabiru: Amerindian Education and Interculturality has carried out in the quilombo known as Rincão dos Negros, and from there, to reflect on what is experienced from a quilombola, historical perspective, in an intercultural and counter-colonizing relationship. We emphasize the quilombola context in relation to collective belonging and problematize the Being-being in the Rincão dos Negros quilombo, located in Rio Pardo, in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, thinking of the movement as a vector that walks through an educational experience of the past in common with the community future and that destabilizes the individualistic logic of our society. The quilombo in dialogue is experiencing polarization, seeking practices that help symbolize dualities, such as the Catholic churches and the quilombo and white families who dispute the same territory. The language of colonization takes place in thought, in the confrontation of strategies in the face of public policies and in the challenge of the university in the educational process of the deeper meanings of a counter-colonization that takes place in the interweaving of teaching, research and extension in a participatory and collaborative perspective. This is why we are proposing this collaborative writing as an educational and intercultural experience, understanding the perspective of thinking situated in a geoculture whose root of knowledge is the culture of the soil and of lived struggles.