Notas sobre a formação de universitários e povos de terreiro

experiências com educação popular em saúde em Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará

Abstract

This article brings a reflective discussion of experiences with affirmative actions through the extensions project “Encontros e encantos: educação popular e saúde com povos de terreiros de matriz africana em Juazeiro do Norte-CE”. The objective is to discuss the experience of a extension project in the training of professionals and “povos de terreiro” based on the popular education.  The debate on health education was articulated with a view to the private demands of the “povos de terreiro” de Juazeiro do Norte, taking as a methodological guideline the health booklets of the Unified Health System that refer to this thematic discussion. We problematize the need for a political-pedagogical restructuring of training in the field of human sciences and health, because still the impoverishment of debates that apply to the real demands of the Candomblé fields and a tendentious production of knowledge about localized knowledge, marked by bleaching and the colonization of knowledge. Therefore, the actors involved in the educational processes are transformed by the interaction of their common and particular elements. Through extension it was possible to think about a professional practice implied in ethical, human and sociocultural discussions that cross subjectivity, pointing to an emancipation and decolonization of university knowledge.