Talks
This cycle of online conversations aims to present debates on Art / Decolonial Education as a Practice of Freedom – interested in presenting some epistemological concerns about Art / Education based on decolonial thought, proposing education disobedience as an alternative to the decoloniality of this field of study. We aim to reveal that another way of education is possible and urgent.
Talk 2 – May 20th – 6pm – Rui Estrela and Cristina Roldão – Racism and Education – the anti-racist struggle does not quarantine
At a time when it is believed that it is possible to carry out a radical change in the way we educate (within the formal education system, and throughout the non-formal education network), we have started an economic analysis which focuses on the school path for people of African descent. Patterns are identified and structural relations with the socio-economic conditions of schools show that the order made in April 1974 remains unfulfilled. Come to meet the contribution of militant sociologist Cristina Roldão and to seek new ways of thinking education.
Cristina Roldão (1980 – Tires) is a sociologist, researcher at CIES-IUL and professor at ESE-IPS. She has been drawing a portrait of students of Afro-descendent in the Portuguese educational system, from primary to higher education, but also in other spheres of society. The history of black woman resistence in Portuguese society, institutional racism, “luso-tropical colour blindness”, ethno-racial data collection and affirmative action policies are issues she has been adressing in the public debate.
Rui Estrela is a militant and community organizer that has been working political thought and practices from a decolonial point of view, using mutual aid and popular education as tools to achieve social transformation. Rui holds a diploma in Political Science and International Relations from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies and is studying Social and Solidarity Economics in the ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. working solidarity responses in spaces of diminished democracy as forms of combat against the violence of Institutional Racism, based on the experience of the Plataforma Gueto movement.