Afrocentric Education

a decolonial and anti-racist curriculum in early childhood education

Abstract

This article aims, through a literature review, to address the importance of afrocentering early childhood education in the city, pointing out, through statistical data, the city of Salvador as an object of study, together with the theoretical references and the political pedagogical project of a Afrocentric institution, seeks to justify the need to racialize pedagogical practices from the construction of the educational curriculum to the classroom with children from 0 to 5 years old. This work points out how Afrocentric education and critical historical pedagogy go together in the construction of the reference “Escolinha Maria Felipa”, of municipal renown, together with other Pan Africanist institutions that guide ancestral knowledge of Africa as possible knowledge in early childhood education institutions. Centered on the pillars of Afrocentricity, agency and worldview, they present another curricular perspective that shifts the white intellectual pattern and points to other cultures, not only in Africa, but also in diaspora and indigenous.