Experience and sensitive listening: the Terreiro as possibility of listening to african childhood

Abstract

This academic essay on the childhood of a terreiro is written according to a candomblé world reading. There are many readings of the world. Our life experiences put us in front of at least two of them: religious reading such as candomblé and the lay reading of pedagogy. In the course of these experiences, we observed in the daily life of our classrooms - in teacher training courses and in the daily life of Early Childhood Education (education professionals) - a great lack of knowledge about the terreiro population, especially about their children. The text addresses the concept of Afro-descendant childhood, based on research carried out in the last ten years by the Study and Research Group Education, Diversity and Religion in traditional religious communities located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the state of Bahia, whose objective is to identify , take into consideration, understand in a multidisciplinary way forms of appropriation, expropriation of the African and Afro-Brazilian ancestral legacy. In the text, we work with sensitive listening, inspired by the Italian approach according to Reggio Emillia experience, and with Lev Semenovitch Vigotsky's concept of experience, where the concept of experience is perceived as a possible way for a liberating education, where the taking of awareness by the child enables him to understand that he is the author of the world itself. A reality where the school values ​​and gives visibility to Afro-descendant children belonging to traditional religious communities.