Title: TORNAR-SE UMA ESCOLA QUILOMBOLA: CAMINHOS E DESCAMINHOS DE UMA EXPERIÊNCIA NO QUILOMBO SANTA RITA DO BRACUÍ, ANGRA DOS REIS-RJ
Abstract: This research aims to contribute to the debate of the emerging quilombola school education policy based on the experience of implementing a quilombola school project in the community of Santa Rita do Bracuí, Angra dos Reis, RJ.In order to do so, we offer an analysis of this experience, considering three important moments that are intertwined in this trajectory of struggle for an education that dialogues with the local culture, its knowledge, political struggles and specific way of life: a past marked by slavery, struggling for the land and the permanence in the territory, a present that incorporates new contours of these same struggles added to the demand of a quilombola school education having as a basis the set of existing legislation for the fulfillment of the referred policy.And, finally, the paths and misplaced paths, the strategies consolidated in / for the effectiveness of this experience lived in the municipal school inserted in the territory of the quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí.The development of the research takes place in the interface of anthropology with the field of education thought from three theoretical pillars that, although distinct, dialog with each other: the decolonial, intercultural perspective and differentiated education.The theoreticalmethodological option used for the field work was the ethnography allied to participant observation, interviews and document analysis.From the research carried out in this community, it can be seen that the process of political struggle experienced by the quilombola leaders of Santa Rita do Bracuí denotes insurgent trajectories, subversive strategies and the construction of emancipatory knowledge that point out, among other things, unique dilemmas and options for the reflection about how the mode of quilombola school education has been conceived and built by the communities themselves, even before the publication of the respective legal