Notes about school education and cultural practices in the Quilombola Community Barreiro Grande, Serra do Ramalho/BA

Abstract

In this article, a fragment from a master's degree research defended in the Postgraduate Course Program in Teaching, from the State University of Southwest Bahia – UESB, we have as goals to identify and analyze the meanings and conceptions that teachers and managers of the Airton Senna School elaborate on the school education offered to Barreiro Grande Quilombola Community and recovering the trajectory of school education in this Community, from the perspective of its residents. This is a qualitative nature survey (DENZIM; LINCOLN, 2006; LUDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986), in an exploratory and descriptive way (GIL, 2012; MATTAR; RAMOS, 2021). We used the semi-structured interview technique to produce the data (SZYMANSKI, 2004; MINAYO, 2009) and document analysis (CELLARD, 2008); content analysis (BARDIN, 2011) was the technique used to organize and analyze data. From the results found, we can say that Samba de Roda, as well as other practices and expressions of cultural elements present in the community, are practiced with a certain frequency at Airton Senna School, as students recognize these cultural practices as signs of “belonging” since it was transmitted and taught by older generations, through orality. Many of the contributors to this research identify the Samba de Roda as an important cultural practice but recognize other artistic practices, are equally important, such as fishing and the construction of handmade nets, which promote the local economy, making them a way of survival for the majority of Quilombola population of the Barreiro Grande Community.