Filosofias Africano-Brasileiras: aterramento diaspórico nas práticas educativas
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/rp.v35i1.83233Abstract
The prevailing understanding of education is deeply rooted in Western paradigms that privilege an exclusionary model of humanity. In response, this article speculates how educational practices, grounded in African philosophies, outline epistemological alternatives for interpreting the world and redefining humanity itself. We therefore propose thinking/acting with African-Brazilian Philosophies in the presence of pedagogical alternatives that challenge the linearity of Western thought. These Philosophies go beyond the mere inclusion of these knowledges; they require a radical restructuring of education to create space for the “not-yet-revealed”. To this end, the first section problematizes the concept of diaspora through an understanding of culture in which black existence simultaneously experiences displacement and an incessant claim to territorial identity. The second section engages with the Philosophy of hinterland to demarcate an epistemology that has the land as its foundation, ancestry as its guide, and enchantment as the axis of being, acting, and educating. Through this trajectory, the article proposes to reconceptualize learning as a continuous practice of situating collective existence in the wisdom of the earth.