Educação e empoderamento: histórias de resistência de mulheres kalunga

Abstract

In fighting for access to social policies and their rights, women from the remnant community of quilombolas, called Kalunga, located in Chapada dos Veadeiros, in the state of Goiás, are faced with a series of modern devices that regulate social relations, personal conduct and the world of work. Thus, the objective of this investigation is to know and analyze the struggles of these women, investigating the process of building their empowerment, considering their life stories, their difficulties and their achievements, in an attempt to answer my problematizations: women, even subjugated through patriarchy are they able to stand out, empower themselves and show their people their rights guaranteed by laws? Have public educational, gender, race/ethnic and teacher education policies contributed to the empowerment of these women?. This research is classified as a qualitative and exploratory bibliographic research, through oral history, based on materialism-historical-dialectic, in view of the interest of deepening knowledge about public policies of gender, race / ethnicity and the formation of teachers. Minayo (2001) states that qualitative research works with the universe of meanings, motives, aspirations, beliefs, values and attitudes, thus, I used as a research instrument semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire with open and closed questions to better know the stories of formation of teachers from Teresina de Goiás. The empirical field comprised Kalunga women from the historic site that houses the Kalunga Cultural Heritage, in the municipality of Monte Alegre de Goiás (two), Cavalcante (three) and Teresina de Goiás (eighteen). The time frame covers the years 2018 to 2021, a period of empirical data collection through direct observation, semi-structured interviews, records of the narratives of the research subjects and in 2021, to conclude the research I used Google meeting and WhatsApp. The results indicate that even though they are participants in a patriarchal culture, in which male domination is ingrained, some Kalunga women are able to empower themselves, especially through access to education. Such empowerment makes it possible to occupy spaces of political power, however, it should be noted that it cannot be a struggle only for these women appointed here as empowered women, but a struggle for all, so that they can achieve more benefits for the kalunga communities and, mainly, contribute to minimize social, socio-school, gender and race / ethnic inequalities