Diálogos entre Educação e Carnaval: Olhares Possíveis

Abstract

The following study has been bringing the process of development of carnival culture and its transformations from its beginnings to the present day, seeking a connection between Education and Carnival, and bringing my experience in the Carnival of Corumbá as a source of inspiration, where we carry out a constant dialogue between carnival practices and pedagogical practices. As a mobilization for investigative action, we raise the following question: "What do the studies say about the relationship between carnival and the possibilities of pedagogical experiences of its participants?" As a general objective, we aim to understand how pedagogical and formative issues emerge in carnival experiences. On the other hand, the specific objectives were to study the possibilities of education from the experience of organizing the carnival, as well as to know different academic productions built from the problem of the interrelationship between the carnival and education. Thus, the present research is characterized by being a qualitative investigation that uses the bases of a bibliographic research, since it intended to answer the initial question elaborated from the possibilities of relationship between carnival and education from a search in studies and writings developed and published on the website of the Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES. The results obtained understood that Carnival, as well as Education, when in contact with its sociais participants, transforms and causes transformation in those involved. Carnival in direct contact with the Afro culture in Brazil has become a source of representation of a people, who have not taken it for themselves, but have made the culture of Carnival increasingly plural, and who have been gaining new followers with each new Carnival. The Samba Schools bring educational practices to the communities where they are established and bring knowledge of different cultures in their plots in the form of music and theater of the allegories on the avenues of Brazil. In short, the agents of Carnival learn by playing, and in the expression of playfulness, transforming lives.