ON THE CATWALK IN SAMBA: DIALOGUES BETWEEN CARNIVAL AND EDUCATION

Abstract

The following study presents the development of carnival culture and its transformations from its inception to the present day, exploring the connection between Education and Carnival. As a mobilization for investigative action, we pose the following question: "What do the studies reveal about the relationship between carnival and the pedagogical experiences of its participants?" As a general objective, we aim to understand how pedagogical and formative issues emerge in the experiences of carnival. In turn, as specific objectives, it was established to study possibilities of education from the experience of organizing a carnival, as well as to know different academic productions built from the problem of the interrelationship between carnival and education. Thus, the present research is characterized by being a qualitative investigation that uses the bases of a bibliographic research, since it tried to answer the initial question elaborated from the possibilities of relationship between carnival and education from a search in studies and writings developed and published on the website of the Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES. The results obtained understood that Carnival, as well as Education, when in contact with its social participants, transforms and causes transformation in those involved. Carnival in direct contact with Afro culture in Brazil has become a source of representation of a people who have not taken it for themselves but have made the culture of Carnival increasingly plural, and which has been gaining new followers with each new Carnival. The Samba Schools bring educational practices to the communities where they are established and bring knowledge of different cultures in their plots in the form of music and theater of allegories on the avenues of Brazil. Finally, the agents of Carnival learn by playing, and in the expression of playfulness, transforming lives.