Serpentes e educação ambiental : mediatizando saberes no Quilombo de Mata Cavalo

Abstract

The myths of a culture are basic for understanding of the way of life of a given society, as well as the meanings given to the territory that permeates it. In this way, we look to investigate in this study the myths made a list to the Serpents, in a community fugitive Negro slave when Horse was called of Rural Community of the Hiding-place of Forest, situated near to highway MT – 060, which gives access to the local authority of Poconé – MT. This community collects approximately 420 families that are slaves' descendants and live in straight contact with the environment, doing utensils for personal use manufactured with the proceeds of the nature. The objective of the work is to identify and to understand the existent myths on the serpents and to talk to these elements of the culture in the community, registering the narratives and talking about possible interpretations of the myths, his origins, dismemberment and representations of pedagogic hallmark that practise meanings in the individual and collective apprenticeship. Leaving from the understanding of the necessity dialogic what presuppose the Environmental Education, between knowing them empirically constituted and the scientific knowledge, we interpret the narratives on serpents principally by the light of the theories of Elíade and Campbell, what they make possible different understanding of the myth that exceed the mythical sphere, what they reach other spaces, like the cosmological, sociological and pedagogic of the community.