Pedagogias do Sul: contos africanos como prática educacional decolonial

Abstract

African tales as an object of study present the relationship between education and culture, from a decolonial perspective. As cultural and educational elements, it shows that the acts of teaching and learning are linked to the life of a people, to its contemporary culture. These stories, which are based on men and animals, allow a multi-inter-transdisciplinary dialogue. Teaching is done through mimes, interjections, songs, and voice modulations. The signs present are new educational paradigms, so learning is based on concrete life. It is about teaching the keys, an educational instrument that, in practice, combines oral and gestural arts. As an educational practice, an education and culture, allowing them to dialogue towards the same humanizing objective of social/cultural/economic life. All of this manifests its decolonial characteristics because there is no education without culture nor is there culture without education.