Experiences of “School[s]” that educate childhood in a quilombola community in the Amazon of Pará

Abstract

The text presents some results of a master's research on quilombola education and seeks to answer how the “school (s)” present in the quilombola community Tambaí-Açu, Mocajuba / PA, educate children between the extended reproductions of life and the expanded reproductions of capital. It is a qualitative investigation, based on historical-dialectical materialism, with data obtained from semi-structured interviews, analyzed in conjunction with a review of the scientific literature. When doing content analysis, it was understood that, although there are different forms of knowledge on the floors and grounds of the community, such as the forest, the rivers, the "enchanted", the blacks / the old people, the mutirões, the “Quilombauê”, social movements such as the Remaining Association of Quilombo Tambaí-Açu - ACREQTA, and also laws and guidelines that support Quilombola Education in Brazil, what has prevailed is the “urbanocentric” sense in terms of school education that disregards the rural space, its diversities, its ways of learning to be, although, contradictorily, the school has sought to counter this through the integration of its quilombola experiences in the training processes, based on its ways of forming and producing through Labour in the collective effort.

Keyword: Experiences, Education, Schools, Quilombola Childhood.