ABSTRACT
Decolonizing thought is a fundamental struggle of the movements for rural education. It is a way of resisting and re-iventing knowledge and ways of living. Considering that the monopoly and visibility of western European knowledge devalue, desqualify and invisibilize rural knowledge, this article investigates the books of the Programa Nacional de Livros Didáticos (PNLD) for rural education, seeing how knowledge and ways of life are presented in the textbooks. By means of the selection and analysis of meaningful imagetic and textual events, the article thematizes hierarchies of knowledge and ways of life in the aforementioned textbooks. This article is the result of research about how race and gender are addressed in all the books of the PNLD for rural education, released on 2013. The research reveals two central events regarding the ways by which race and gender are performed on those books: the coloniality of knowledge and the politically correct style.
KEYWORDS:
coloniality; politically correct; textbook; rural education