Exu e a Pedagogia das Encruzilhadas

Abstract

This work invokes and incarnates the powers of Exu, a Yoruba divinity, translated in the diaspora, to propose the pedagogy of encruzilhadas. I set from the defense of the redemption of colonialism. However, I question the continuity of its effects in the formation of a multiple and unfinished world, that is herein read, from the conceptual availability defined in the encruzilhada of Exu. Thus, it emerges as a symbol of an anti-racist/decolonial political/poetic/educational project. The pedagogy incarnated by the orixá's powers weaves a basket of multiple concepts that face the arrogance and the primacy of the modes fortified by colonial logic. This way, more than confronting the limits of the dominant reasoning, the proposition herein issued indicates other paths. Those paths emerge from inventions birthed in the limits and in the gaps that were left. Those are reconstructive wisdoms of the beings that were subject to the politics of subordination, incarceration and death of race/racism in the invention of the New World. Education is herein presented as paths to possibilities of reinvention of the beings, a responsible answer dedicated to cognitive/social justice and life in its diversity and immanence