EDUCATE TO LIVE IN FULLNESS

Abstract

The modern colonial world system is in deep crisis, generating impasses that endanger the very survival of humanity on our planet, such as the thresholds of environmental collapse, nuclear war and the erosion of democracies. The implosion of modernity's sociocultural projects is being boosted by the multiple and varied popular movements, which are promoting the re-existence of their ways of being and living, constitutive of ancestral wisdom and power relations. The tension between modernity and ancestry problematizes the multiple unique borders that not only separate bodies and races, but also delimit ruptures and cultural exchanges in cognitive, intellectual, cultural, social, and ecosystem spaces. The original peoples – represented by indigenous, quilombola, traditional people movements, among many others – break the colonial stigmas and yoke, which have placed them in a socially passive, subaltern, marginal position, and assume the leading role in the reconstruction of the social tissue based on in ancestral principles of Well Living. In this perspective, we will seek here to resume the ancestral principles of Well Living, or Life in Plenitude, to delimit the problem constituted by the emerging contradiction in the opposition between modernity and ancestry, which are configured in the contradiction between coloniality and Well Living. In this context, we will point out the implications of Well Living for the conceptions of popular education, such as the one enunciated by Paulo Freire.