Recited Curriculum: Afroecuadorian décimas and lo propio as the Ground of Re-existence
摘要
Afroecuadorian thinkers, artists and elders started to gestate in the 1970s what would be known from 1979 as Etnoeducación (Afrocentric education). The Afroesmeraldeñan thinker, Juan Garcia, was one of the main proponents of unlearning Europeanized knowledge about, and categorization of Afroecuadorians while “sowing” the knowledge of Afrodescendant elders as a way of asserting Afrodescendant ways of living and existing. His compilation of Afroecuadorian music, poetry, stories, and other mostly orally passed-on knowledge in the Afroecuadorian Notebooks became the referent for the development of Etnoeducation and Ecuadorian Maroon Pedagogy. This chapter looks at the Afroecuadorian Notebooks as a source of “demonic” sociogenic codes and curricula to support a shift in the politics of being.