ABSTRACT:
The present paper is part of the ethnographic research outcome about knowledge and popular practices in education and health, which was carried out in the period from 2015 to 2017 in Quilombo Machadinha; it is proposed to think about the jongo educational process through the African philosophy’s perspective and the cultural identity concept. The first part presents the jongo as an African ancestral practice that is characteristic of quilombos of the southeast of Rio de Janeiro. The second part will point to afrocentrated philosophical elements of this dance. The third and fourth parts express the elements that jongo teaching is composed by: oral language, knowledge from experience and cultural identity. Finally, this article promotes this potential in the reorientation of academic school.
Keywords:
Educational Practices; Jongo; Community of Quilombo