TEACHING HISTORY AND CANDOMBLÉ

What can we learn with traditional knowledges?

Abstract

The present work is an excerpt from the dissertation “Candomblé and History Teaching: the terreiro as a place of teaching-learning - The case of Ilé Axé Tobi Babá Olorígbin (2013-2020)”, defended in 2022 in the Mastering Program in History Teaching at the Federal University of Uberlândia (PROFHIS). In this text, we discuss how the Teaching of History and traditional knowledge of Afro-Brazilian culture can be important in the classroom. To carry out the analysis, we relied on oral interviews of teachers from the basic and higher education, as well as on reflections by Quintana (2016) and McLaren (2004). We understand that the way of learning and teaching within Candomblé, which brings aspects of the African cultures from which it descends, is very different from what is taught in schools today, with a predominantly Eurocentric and capitalist curriculum. Candomblé is also related to money, but from a different perspective.
Keywords: Popular Culture and Traditional Knowledge. Candomblé and Teaching, Ancestry.