Terreiro Palácio de Yemanjá : um espaço de Educação ambiental e cultural de colonial Olindense.

Abstract

This article aims a debate from a decolonial perspective of the importance of the Candomblé’s terreiro Palácio de Yemanjá, in Olinda-PE, as a space for non-formaleducation in the promotion of environmental and cultural education. The question the guides the study, from a decolonial perspective is: how the terreiro Palácio de Yemanjá, in Olinda, promotes environmental and cultural education as a non-formal education space? During Brazil's history, as a result of colonialism, the enslaved black people and their african-brazilian religions, specially the candomblé, were silenced and their practices demonized. Through bibliographic revisions, some aspects of the candomblé are going to be highlighted, as a relationship of preservation of Nature, the Orixás, the syncretisms, the ancestrality, the ethic, the hierarchy, the symbologies and others political, social, ecologic, environmental and cultural points of view, that are added to the educational field, as non-formal education spaces. The study classifies itself as qualitative exploratory and descriptive, from a decolonial perspective, which is configured as one of the strategies to establish knowledge coming from the subaltern, such as the terreiro people, establishing a political counterpoint by a milestone imposed by colonialism. Notwithstanding, the practices and knowledges being forms of resistance and and point to other possibilities of life that are close to the ecology of knowledge and the Good Living, the popularly called Terreiro de Pai Edu assumes na environmental and cultural education relevance. As a non-formal education space that seeks to break the process of invisibilization of terreiro peoples, from the Afro-descendant culture in our country, and reinforces the process of decolonizing knowledge, like other forms of discrimination.