A questão étnico-racial na escola: uma reflexão sobre a formação de professores através do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID)

Abstract

This paper is the result of a scholarship holders’ experience financed by the Institutional Program of Initiation to Teaching Scholarship (PIBID) through a Pedagogical Project developed by the Universidade de Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP). The theme shows the participants’ concerns after the realization of the Project, entitled “Knowing and Valuing African Culture in Brazil”, with students from the 1st grade of a Public Elementary School. The research emphasizes some reflections on the challenges that are present in teaching approaches related to Ethnic-Racial Relationships, covering subjects such as: 1) Structural Racism in Brazil; 2) Historic Struggle of Black Movements against Racism and in favor of Educational Policies; 3) Social Achievements based on Brazilian laws 10.639/03 and 11.645/08 and the impasses in their implementations; as well as 4) the Questions and Possibilities of Teaching Practices on the Ethnic-Racial Subject; 5) the Demand for Teacher Training Programs which really base and guide these Practices; and finally, 6) the Defiance and Potentiality found during the Experience with PIBID. Therefore, the main purposes of this analysis are to highlight and report the scholarship holders’ performance in the Project, as well as to endorse the debate on Teacher Training and Anti-Racism Education. It takes as a basis the Reports produced in the aforementioned period, the Material developed for the Project and the Official Documents which guide the Ethnic-Racial Education, in addition to books, articles related to themes such as Racism, Ethnic-Racial Relations at School as well as to Teacher Training.