Colonialidade da educação escolar: aproximação teórica e análise de práticas

Abstract

The demand for school education access under the imaginary of the development of people and the nation is a narrative strongly present in Brazilian society. Based on anti-colonial theories, the present article proposes to examine this discourse and, from that, to outline the concept of colonia-lity in school education. To this end, we will first carry out a contextualization of the approaches that are dedicated to the interpretation of the world-system with reference to the events of domi-nation of people, cultures and territories inaugurated between the 15th and 16th centuries and, under this approach, we will deal with the theoretical discussion regarding school education. Finally, in order to identify aspects of the validity of coloniality in the educational context, we will analyze excerpts from interviews and records in a field notebook derived from a recently conclu-ded PhD research. The discussions carried out in the article lead us to conclude that guaranteeing the right to education indeed for all is conditioned by the decolonization of the school, its culture and its practices.