The Management and Use Plan for the Quilombola Territory of Conceição das Crioulas and Crioula Pedagogy

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe how it happened and to present some of the results of a survey carried out by the Conceição das Crioulas Quilombola Association (AQCC) in 2011, with the aim of subsidising the preparation of the community's Territory Management Plan. This research was carried out in the quilombola schools, and part of the public surveyed were students from all the disciplines offered in the quilombo, i.e. from kindergarten to high school. Leaders, representatives of farmers' associations, adults and the elderly were also consulted. Several groups were formed, and for each one a methodology was planned and used according to each age group. Analysing what each group said resulted in an important contribution to a territorial plan that looks at the past, the present and also what the future could be, in terms of land use, care and nature conservation. The strengthening of an ancestry centred on ethnic belonging, cultural traditions and ways of life, lived through the use of the land, were also issues observed in the oral accounts, and in written activities, through the children's drawings, etc.