Educação e cultura popular em Moçambique: um estudo sobre Nyago

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the relationship between Education and popular culture looking at their relationships and contradictions in the socio- cultural context and implications for pedagogical practice. Nyago, practiced by the Yaawo or Yao people, from Northern Mozambique, in Niassa province. This popular culture is practiced annually, with rites of initiation or passage into adulthood for young people or adolescents. To study these relationships, contradictions and implications in the curriculum, in teacher training and in pedagogical practice, under a bibliographical, documental and field research, where 12 heads of schools in the District of Sanga were interviewed in depth, in order to encompass various perceptions and observe differences or similarities in the way they think about the possible relationship between formal education, produced in schools and popular culture – Nyago. It was a purpose of seeking results that indicated that the relationship between Education and popular culture - Nyago is conflicting and historical, deeply marked by the promotion of the Colonial State, through the discourse and policies that strengthened the denial of educational differences in popular culture African. This process in the post-independence period becomes a challenge for its non-perpetuation in educational policies, which support discourses of the cultural hierarchy, discriminating much of what is popular, such as incompatible, dual or ambivalent, with formal education. This process in Nyago contributes to the production of marginalization in the Mozambican culture and formal educational process.