“Kosi ewe, kosi orisa” (Sem folha não há orixá): vivências ecológicas em um terreiro de candomblé

Abstract

This ethno-research-action took place at Ilè Àè Opó Osogunlade (Ilê Axé Opô Oxogum Ladê), a Candomblé terreiro from the Ketu nation - located in the state of Sergipe, in the northeast of Brazil, led by Babalaxé Reginaldo Daniel Flores (Ogun Tóòrikpe), priest of Ogum. The research investigated the possible relationships between the African worldview, its cultural practices and the foundations and practices of Environmental Education, as well as the ways of producing and sharing knowledge in the aforementioned terreiro. As a strategy for the collective construction of knowledge, the research aimed to enable pedagogical experiences in that terreiro through 03 workshops (diagnostic-workshop / orixás-nature workshop / Environmental Education workshop) and 02 interviews with priests representing the Ketu nation in Brazil, who articulated the principles of Environmental Education and the principles / values ​​of Ketu Nation Candomblé. The collective researcher subject opted for a collective intervention method, permeated by the affective dimension, based on the principles of ethnosearch-action and inspired by decision-making techniques, which associated researchers and social actors in a joint procedure to transform a given reality and knowledge sharing between a cultural tradition (terreiro de candomblé ketu) and academic knowledge, thus reaffirming the importance of an intercultural dialogue of knowledge.