A educação ambiental na (re)significação do conhecimento tradicional das comunidades quilombolas em seus processos de resistência.

Abstract

In the more than five hundred years history of Brazil and the community s black s still operate from the perspective of colonialism. The difference in social treatment between blacks and whites is still a reality in Brazilian society. Thus, this work sought to provoke significant paradigm shifts in the ways in which quilombola communities perceive and make use of their traditional knowledge, in order to strengthen their collective. And it was recognized that through traditional knowledge, quilombolas can exercise their right to citizenship, having as pillars their religiosities and the art transmitted by their ancestors. Thus, we identify the original spirituality of African-based religions and the game of capoeira, as ways of ( re) signify those knowledges and using it are to constitute acts of resistance against oppressive regime. Environmental education appears as an interlocutor in the process of transmitting knowledge from generation to generation in these communities. Making the subject through one reflexive act , strengthen their s identity s and make -If protagonists of their s own s history s . In this perspective, are youthesis makes a cut to dialogue with the experiences of two quilombola communities in the metropolitan region of the city of Porto Alegre. The first of them is the quilombo da Família Silva – First Urban Quilombo in Brazil to receive its title. And the second case is the Machado Family – quilombos in the process of retaking their territory. Both of the communities have their stories marked by the process of struggle and resistance against lawsuits whose purpose is the taking of their territories. As a methodological form, this research has a qualitative nature, in which the investigative method was the case study. Recognizing that environmental education is present in the di a down- to -day these communities and through traditional knowledge quilombos exercise their citizenship by promoting respect for diversity, plurality culture l , and social justice, rejecting any form of prejudice.