A pesquisa na encruzilhada: perspectiva afro-brasileira e a pesquisa em educação

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss how elements of the Afro-Brazilian worldview, as sources of ancestral knowledge and epistemological possibility, can contribute to the construction of other research approaches and methodologies that seek (to oppose and) break with the colonial monological tradition in the field of education research. For this discussion we are supported in the post-colonial perspective, from the Afro-Latin American social thought, in the ancestral knowledge of the black people, especially in those produced in the educational practices afro-religious. In addition, we dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin's thinking. For this, we take the crossroads as a concept image and an epistemological reference. The crossroads, in this perspective, transcends the religious sign and becomes an analytical reference of reality. Finally, we present “dialogical circles” as a methodological possibility for building data in the research in education. With this, we can see that the dialogic circles allow the construction of a humanized research, based on alterity, in dialogue and in the recognition of the other as a co-author of knowledge and seeks to break with a colonized ideal (r) in the construction of research.