BATUQUE ON SCENE: EPISTEMIC AND EMANCIPATORY PERSPECTIVES IN PERFORMING ARTS PEDAGOGY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAWS 10,639/2003 AND 11,645/2008
Article 26A of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of the National Education; Anti-racist Education; Performing Arts; Life Trajectories; Artistic Intervention.
The present study, looking for the answer of the question “how can the Performing Arts contribute to the implementation of article 26a of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of the National Education?”, shows a pedagogical intervention performed at Vargem Bonita Educational Center (Park Way countryside, Brasília – Federal District - DC), with the faculty members participation, students, school board members and guest artists. The course of the theoretical writing followed a way that integrated the bibliographic review and an autobiographical perspective, in which I, as a researcher, an arts teacher at the State Department of Education DC and a candomblecist, tried to, first, understand the school scenario in its curricular, pedagogical, didactic and cultural aspects. I observed that, in general, the school institution follows a teaching pattern based on documents, legislation and norms and that, therefore, it bases its pedagogical practice on theories and concepts, generating an overvaluation of abstract understanding to the detriment of practice. And when it comes to education for the ethnic-racial relations, I observed that the implementation of the laws 10.639/2003 and 11.645/2008 needed epistemes that came from experiences, practices and knowledge (including to undo folklore and exoticism), and theater would then be the didactic format for the approaching of the themes with an intervention (scenic, musical and conversation circle) in the school. The result of the research points not only to a reflective conclusion, but the entire course taken presents itself as a learning experience. This learning, even though it can be expanded, awakens as inspiration for new interventions in other school contexts in which the implementation of the aforementioned laws is an urgency in the way of an anti-racist education in fact.