O branqueamento no cotidiano escolar: pr??ticas pedag??gicas nos espa??os da creche

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Telma Cezar da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da Uninove
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1687
• topic: branqueamento; creche; crian??a negra; quest??es ??tnico-raciais; lei 10639/03; whitening; kindergarten; black child; ethno-racial issues; law 10639/03; blanqueamiento; guarder??a; ni??os negros; cuestiones ??tnicas y raciales; ley 10639/03; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This PhD dissertation analyses the influence of the whitening process on pedagogical practices in the context of early childhood education, especially in the environment of kindergartens. It aims to support both the understanding and the raise of awareness concerning the effects of whitening upon the development of the identity of children between 0 and 3 years old, especially when it comes to black children. Although the Law 10.639/03 had substantially fostered the inclusion of ethno-racial education in the different fields of education, the reproduction of whitening in kindergartens is still considerably frequent. Remarking that such reality affects society in general, among other kinds of harms whitening reinforces prejudice, discrimination, stigmatization and, as consequence, racism itself, and negatively influences the development of both the identity and self-esteem of black children. Taking into account the premises worked by critical authors from different areas of social studies, the theoretical grounding of this research is composed by those thinkers who, while questioning a Western society marked by the imposition of Eurocentric and US-centric hegemonic values, also demonstrate how education reproduces the same values. Alongside a critical dialogue with the relevant literature, whitening is examined in this research based on two empirical realities. For this purpose, the methodological tools employed during the fieldwork were ethnographic observation, interviews with the management team, and focal groups performed with the teaching staff of two municipal kindergartens in Santo Andr??/SP as well with coordinators from the Educational Service of Santo Andr?? city???s Municipal Department of Education. The analysis of the data validated the hypothesis that the whitening process is still hegemonic in the educational practices in kindergartens despite the mandatory presence of ethno-racial education in those places, which is assured by the Law 10.639/03. In regard to education policies, this situation reinforces the need of qualifying the teaching and administrative staff of educational unities, which will produce spaces for fostering the discussion around the problems concerning the phenomenon of whitening and its many causes and consequences.