Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: OLGA CRISTIANA CAVALCANTE DE MENDONÇA

Teacher, I saw Exu!": a decolonial pedagogical experience in teaching History to combat religious racism, Cabo de Santo Agostinho-PE (2013-2023).

History Teaching; Curriculum; African Matrix Religions.

This dissertation aims to analyze some relationships between History Teaching, the History curriculum in Pernambuco and African-based religions. In the first chapter, we will analyze some disputes and epistemological, political and ethical consequences of the construction of school education and History Teaching based on ethnic-racial relations. We will use as theoretical support, Nilma Lino Gomes, Sueli Carneiro, Catherine Walsh, among others and other scholars with the purpose of understanding, on the one hand, the Teaching of History between its curricular formulations and the production of epistemicide of the black population and , on the other, some possible paths for the development of History Teaching inspired by decolonial pedagogy. In the second chapter, we will turn our attention to the History Curriculum proposed in the Pernambuco State Network, investigating the extent to which this document provides support for combating religious racism in History classes. To this end, we adopt a post-structuralist approach that perceives the curriculum as a cultural artifact and a field of political disputes whose discursive practices construct new realities. In the last chapter, we analyzed a pedagogical experience that we evaluate as decolonial due to the way it was created and has been (re)constructed: the Cycle of Activities for the Affirmation of Afro-Brazilian Culture. This is a project carried out by the Epitácio Pessoa State School, located in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho. We consider such activity a tool to combat the structural racism that exists in Brazilian society. This Cycle of Activities has demonstrated great potential for openings, dialogues and possibilities for deconstructing religious racism. As a didactic proposition, we will create a documentary based on the history of this project, especially considering the school's relationship with Terreiro Ilê Asé Sango Ayrá Ibonã, located in Pirapama, in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho. We believe that this material can suggest the possibility of decent work for History classes that can combat religious racism through a decolonial scientific approach.