O jogo “Palmares e conexões atlânticas”: reflexões e práticas pedagógicas sobre resistência ao escravismo e à colonialidade

Abstract

This study focuses on the development of a card game to be implemented in classroom settings with seventh-grade students in lower secondary education. The game features characters and social groups representing the reality of colonial Brazil, with particular emphasis on black quilombola resistance in Northeastern Brazil during the seventeenth century and its connections with Africa through the Atlantic world. The most emblematic historical process within this context is the War of the Quilombo of Palmares, led by Africans who resisted colonial domination for more than a century in the forest region of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, establishing their own cultural, political, social, and economic ways of life. The research analyzes theories and methodologies regarding the use of games as pedagogical tools in the classroom, while also discussing historiographical perspectives on Palmares through the use of transcribed historical sources from the period. In addition, the study engages with theoretical contributions from decolonial scholarship and the so-called Epistemologies of the South. Finally, the card game is structured and developed so that teachers who read this work may reproduce it or adapt it according to their own pedagogical contexts.