Educação das relações étnico-raciais: práticas pedagógicas em auxílio à construção das identidades raciais de crianças negras na educação fundamental na cidade do Recife - PE

Abstract

This work discusses how racial identities are constituted in school contexts, and how they can be impacted (positively and negatively) by teaching practices. As a general objective of the research, we seek to investigate how schools, through teaching practices, build pedagogical practices to confront racism and value the ethnic-racial plurality of black and brown students. This helped us to formulate a framework of specific objectives, which are: a) Investigate the domain that elementary education teachers have about ethnic- racial relations and how they use the theoretical, social and constitutional and regulatory documents of basic education to plan their activities, carry them out and build an anti-racist pedagogical culture that values Afro-Brazilian identities; b) How teachers seek to break with the folklorization of the theme and what methodological resources they seek to adopt in order to build positive racial identities. To constitute the research, we were methodologically inspired by Content Analysis, which was used to develop an analytical support in reference to the discourses produced in semi-structured interviews with teachers from the public school system, in a peripheral school in the city of Recife. In the context that we analyzed, we observed that pedagogical actions that bring practices of valuing racial identities, much less autonomy and self-esteem of black children, are not actively developed. We analyze how racism, brought from a historical perspective, causes implications in this process, promoting distortions of notions directly linked to the construction of positive black identities. We conclude that, as much as there is a positive intention to help children's identity development in the school environment, it only has significant validity when supported by the proper appropriation of the theoretical and historical content of ethnic-racial relations in Brazil.