Fazendo covas na areia: desaprender para aprender, movimentos decoloniais na educação matemática

Abstract

The article aims to raise debates mobilizing mancala as a social practice and not as a game, in the sense of decolonizing extractive conceptions of African knowledge that have been generated by the use of Eurocentric epistemology as the standard of correction of all practices in the world. In this way, we propose to look at the mancala as a type of language game approaching the philosophy of the second Ludwig Wittgenstein, that is, as part of a therapeutic-grammatical-decolonial exercise in order to build oth-er “possible worlds”, other ways of educating in Afro-diasporic dialogues, which allow us to tension the imposition of the Eurocentric view on African practices. For this, we start from the understanding that there is mathemat-ical knowledge that manifests itself in different ways in all cultures and from the importance of epistemological detachment to enable dialogues between forms of life.