A força do signo da arte da literatura infantil afrobrasileira nos movimentos curriculares coletivos

Abstract

This study invests in the invention of curricular movements with children and teachers through encounters with the sign of art in Afro-Brazilian children’s literature developed in a Municipal Early Childhood Education Center in the municipality of Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil. It presents the following problem: What can the sign of art in Afro-Brazilian children’s literature produce in the encounters among teachers, children, and inventive curricular movements? The research is grounded in aesthetic experimentations that emerge from the affects produced by the force of the sign of art in Afro-Brazilian children’s literature with children and teachers, traversing an open map of possibilities (Deleuze & Guattari, 2022). The study is guided by the methodology of cartography, which follows everyday curricular inventions crossed by the sign of art in Afro-Brazilian children’s literature, understood as a force that moves thought and deconstructs ethnic-racial stereotypes. It argues for a collective invention intertwined with the sign of art, proposing a perspective of thinking other modes and proliferating spaces of experimentation rather than representation. As its central objective, the research seeks to cartograph the force of the sign of art in Afro-Brazilian children’s literature in composition with children and teachers in inventive processes, affirming Rolnik’s (2018) thought on active micropolitics manifested in written and imagistic enunciations within the researched collective. In the production of data, it is possible to perceive teachers and children who insist on blurring curricula, creating processes of resistance that affirm life for all. The study engages with the theoretical-methodological framework of cartography through networks of conversations, intersecting with the Philosophy of Difference. To this end, dialogues are woven with concepts developed by Deleuze, Rolnik, Nascimento, Evaristo, and other thinkers. Along this path, a capoeirar movement is proposed—one that dances and sways with the unpredictability and vitality of childhoods, evoking joy and opening pathways to think about childhoods committed to anti racist practices.