A relação crianças-cosmos no Assentamento Visconde

por uma educação ambiental em presença de outros seres

Abstract

This article is the result of a master's conducted with children and peasant women from the Visconde settlement, Casimiro de Abreu/RJ. The research focuses on the children-cosmos relationship in a community-based context, within the agroecological struggle, investigating with a group of children, their mothers, grandmother, and other beings. It questions anthropocentric and cosmophobic stances that forge relations with other forms of life, in everyday life, science, and politics. Such conceptions distance us from the condition of being interconstituted with other ontologies. On the theoretical-methodological path, cosmophobia, Amerindian perspectivism, indigenous and traditional cosmologies are urged. As composter for pedagogical practices about to come, the germinating word “children-cosmos” aims to produce two movements: to unsettle and to summon. The study highlights the urgency of opening childhood studies to the ontologies of peoples whose existence is expressed orally in “terreiros” soaked with presences.