Recuperação do papel educador da família no contexto Moçambicano

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze how children are educated at a family level in the absence of formal teaching mechanisms. During the colonial period, education was seen as an instrument of “civilization” of “indigenous” populations with the aim of better serving colonization. The only concern was to create bases in Africans to make better use of them, ignoring their history and culture. In this context, the Catholic Church played an important role so that the Colonial Government consolidated its colonial positions in Mozambique. Because this system favored urban areas over rural ones, most of the populations that lived in the countryside did not benefit and today do not benefit from any formal education either. From 1975 onwards, after independence, new changes took place in terms of education, the aim of which was to provide education for all. These goals were not achieved due to various factors such as, for example, the large demand of students looking for this type of service. For these reasons, this work focuses on the “traditional” ways that families use to educate children, knowing that this is the child's first reference point. It is there that the child socializes, learning norms, values, ideas and behaviors, in order to assert his personality and preserve his culture, factors that were denied him during the colonial period (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)