BETWEEN WEBS AND THREADS – PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND GRIÔ PEDAGOGY – EXTRACTS FROM AN AUTOETNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This article comes from the doctoral thesis “Weaving knowledge, weaving life - Physical Education and Griô Pedagogy: an autoethnographic experience of a physical education teacher at RME POA”. Where, from an autoethnography and discussion groups, we discuss the training process in Griot Pedagogy as a possibility of building a decolonial education and dealing with ethnic-racial issues in physical education. The text presents the main aspects addressed in the thesis, presenting a project developed in Physical Education classes, with 8th and 9th grade classes of Elementary School, in a public school in the city of Porto Alegre/RS. The project was named “Corpo e Ancestralidade”, which addressed ethnic-racial issues from the perspective of Griô Pedagogy. We sought to reflect on the places where whiteness is spoken and experienced as spaces of privilege, on the element of time and its impact on the teacher’s personal and professional life; and about motherhood and the ways of living this experience that impact Physical Education teaching.