COUNTER-COLONIAL LITERACY: pedagogical propositions for Portuguese language teaching
Decolonization; Interculturality; decolonial literacies;
In this research, I establish critical dialogues with the field of Decolonial Studies to
think about the culture of colonial violence, from its conformation as a political system
to contemporary rearrangements and their interrelationships with the field of language.
From the understanding that colonial violence continues to be the basis of social
relations in Brazil, I point out the need to think about decolonial and intercultural
pedagogical practices for teaching Portuguese as a mother tongue. In this way, dialogue
with the study carried out in the field of New Literacies and Applied Linguistics to
elaborate a pedagogical proposal aimed at the development of practices of decolonial
literacies, in the sense of outlining a culturally sensitive, critical and creative approach.
This discussion gains materiality from the pedagogical support material entitled
Decolonial literacies: what? because? and how to do it?, which is presented and
discussed in this work. The present investigation is part of the paradigm of qualitative
research, of an interpretive nature, in the field of applied linguistics, as well as being
characterized as a developmental research, since it proposes and analyzes a pedagogical
support material.