EDUCATION AND ANCESTRALITY:

INITIAL REFLECTIONS TO THINK ABOUT CONSTRUCTS OF AN ANCESTRAL PEDAGOGY

Abstract

Thinking about education and ancestrality is important nowadays, since there are many neoliberal perspectives that place education as a marketing practice, focused on market interests in a competitive and meritocratic logic; thus, ancestrality is a form of resistance and insurgency against neoliberal educational perspectives. In this sense, in this paper, the objective is to bring initial reflections on the concept of an ancestral pedagogy as a praxis that can bring ecological and ancestral perspectives as a pedagogy, bringing different aspects of human formation in a perspective of education and ancestrality where there is other knowledge that focus on spirituality, the insurgency against inequality, the appreciation of popular culture, which can be powerful alternatives against the neoliberal individualist logic. I think of a perspective, based on Krenak (2022), that the future is ancestral. As foundations and interpretative lenses for the construction of this perspective of education and ancestrality, I bring two categories: popular education and decoloniality/interculturality. I carry out an analysis bringing aspects that allow constructs of an ancestral pedagogy and, as final considerations, I highlight that this sharing of knowledge is a good instrument for, as Freire (2000) highlights, changing the world for the better, to make it less unfair.