COLONIALIDADADE DO SABER NO ENSINO DA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA: RESISTÊNCIA OU REPRODUÇÃO DO EUROCENTRISMO?

Abstract

This paper seeks to problematize the teaching of literature in the Brazilian Basic Education system. Concepts of coloniality of knowledge and coloniality of power are foregrounded to explain how Eurocentrism is still present Brazilian School discourses, regarding the possibility of resistance to colonizers or not. As such, this investigation engages with education theorists and decolonial thinking.