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RE-ENCHANT TO EDUCATE
Kambandô Juliana Ignácio Balduino
A call to Re-enchant Education through ancestry, art, and presence.
The Silence of Lost Enchantment
We live in a time when disenchantment has replaced affection and curiosity. Sick teachers, unmotivated students, a technology that substitutes gaze and touch. But there is a path that can lead us to another Time, the Time to Re-enchant ourselves and remember that teaching is a ritual of presence.
Children playing in the dirt remind those who have grown up how to learn with the heart.
The Crossing – The Call to Re-Enchantment
Between weariness and creation, there is a crossing. It is there that we rediscover the meaning of teaching and learning.
My training and experiences invite educators and managers to this path back to the soul of education — a journey between body, memory, and art.
"Crossing: the body in motion is a bridge between the past and what is to come... I let my voice out on the roads. I no longer want to stop..." - Milton Nascimento
Lecture: Re-Enchant to Educate
Who is it for
Teachers, managers, and school teams
Purpose
To provoke a deep reflection on disenchantment in education and inspire ways to re-signify the teaching practice with affection, presence, and ancestry
Lecture Content and Benefits
Content
  • Data on teacher illness and dropout rates
  • The impact of the absence of affection and curiosity
  • The power of re-enchantment as an educational practice
Benefits
  • Broadens perspective on care and belonging
  • Inspires new narratives to teach with purpose
  • Rekindles the joy of teaching

Differential
A ritual-lecture that unites research, poetry, and ancestry as forces of healing and collective learning.
The sacred is in our bodies and memories. Presence and poetry announce that knowledge is an offering.
Experience: Memories of Re-Enchantment
For Teachers, Managers, and Women Educators
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Purpose
To rescue Black female and poetic references that strengthen women's protagonism in education
2
Content
Black Brazilian and African writers and poets, creative writing and female symbology, music, singing, body and listening
Benefits of the Experience
Strengthens self-esteem and belonging
Reconnection with inspiring identities and stories
Stimulates sensitive pedagogical practices
Identitarian and culturally relevant approaches
Creates a space for reconnection
With the sacred feminine and with art as a tool for transformation
Experience: Memories of Re-Enchantment
For Educators, Communities, and Women's Groups
Purpose
To value the trajectories and arts of Black women in the diaspora as inspiration to rewrite educational, reparative, and cultural narratives.
Content
  • Stories and works of Black women masters, artists, educators
  • Reflection on belonging and resistance
  • Artistic experience (music, writing, body, and nature)
Expands cultural repertoires
Enriches education with diverse perspectives
Promotes listening and exchange
Knowledge between generations in dialogue
Reinforces community sense
Collective and transformative learning
Our memories are journeys that illuminate and strengthen the path of affectionate, loving, and courageous education.
To write is to materialize our memories in history. To remember is to Relive and to Live is to Re-enchant.
Kambandô Juliana Ignácio Balduino
Ritualistic researcher, Doctor in Arts from the Unesp Arts Institute.
Works in lectures, experiences, workshops, and projects that unite Ancestry, Arts, and Memory as educational transformation tools.
Academic Background
Post-doctorate
Education Program at the Federal University of Piauí - UFPI (starting 2025)
Doctorate in Arts
Arts Institute of UNESP (2024). Thesis: Me, Them, Us and Ancestry – Art Education Writ(h)ings from the Esperança Garcia Institute in Quilombo da Parada
Specializations
Environmental Early Childhood Education for Climate Justice - USCAR (2024-2025). Racial Equality Promotion Policies in Schools - UFOP-MG
Undergraduate Degree
Portuguese Language and Brazilian Literature from PUC-SP
Professional Experience and Expertise
Teaching
Professor in undergraduate courses, social projects, free courses, and university extension in the areas of Literature, Pedagogy, Communication, and Arts.
Instructor for workshops, lectures, and training activities. Collaborator in civil society organizations.
Research
Focus on Ancestry, Arts and Memories; Black Feminist and Afro-Brazilian Literature; Human Rights and Gender.

Founder of the Esperança Garcia Institute – Education, Art, Culture and Nature (2009) and the School of Arts in the Atlantic Forest Quilombo da Parada (2015), a community space that houses the Susana de Paula Community Afroteca.
Recognition and Affiliations
2025
Luisa Mahin Award
Awarded by the Municipal Secretariat of Human Rights and Citizenship (SMDHC) of the City of São Paulo, to women committed to valuing Black culture and a trajectory of anti-racist struggle.
2025
Outstanding Alumna Award
UNESP - Human Sciences Area. An initiative of Unesp's Dean of Graduate Studies for alumni who have distinguished themselves by their scientific, economic, and/or social impact.
2022
UNESCO-SOST
Ad Hoc Member of the Joint Office UNESCO-SOST Transcreative, of the Barcelona Chair – UPC.
Contact
Phone
11 97184-2364
Instagram
@kambando_julianabalduino
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I am a small river that flows slowly, between Words, Arts, and the Hope to Re-Enchant and Hope to unlearn in order to learn...
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May the journey of re-enchantment continue, inspiring paths of affection, art, and ancestry in education.