Criança e negra: o direito à afirmação da identidade negra na educação infantil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Tarcia Regina da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8508
• topic: Educação Infantil; Childhood Education; Educação em/para Direitos Humanos; Relações Étnico-Raciais; Diferença; Education in/for Human Rights; Ethnic-racial relations; Difference; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The antiracist pedagogical practices at Childhood Education are the problem-theme of this doctoral thesis. Its aim is to analyze the elements which guide such practices in a Municipal Center of Childhood Education (CMEI) in Recife and its influence in the construction of the children and blacks’ racial identity. This research is based on the child perspective as a unique subject. It is founded on the assumption that Education in/for the Human Rights, which absorbs from the Childhood Education the right to the difference in terms of interculturality, has contributed to the children and the black ones to positively construct their racial identity. Referenced by these theoretical aspects of analysis, the research tried to answer the following questions: which educational practices are being developed by the CMEI staff, which is committed to an antiracist education? Which are the underlying elements to these practices? How are the children in these groups developing their racial identity? For this reason, we used the premises of the qualitative research and the case study, since we desired to share with the people and the place of the research guided by the unveiling of the power relations and the implicit domination to the issues of the ethnic-racial relations. The subjects of the research were: the manager, the coordinator, a teacher, two childhood development auxiliaries and twenty children from group IV. The semi-structured interview and cartoon books about racial conflicts were used as instruments for the adults. With the children, there were interviews with strategies about the self-portrait, followed by the self-identification, storytelling with black characters, male and female ones, and the modeling of princes and princesses. The analyses have showed that the practices developed at CMEI assume the incorporation of the other as genuinely the other. Thus, it could mean a perspective established in an Education in/for the Human Rights. But the implementation of an antiracist education is not easy to happen in a peaceful and consensual way, since not the whole staff and community understand the importance of this discussion. Nevertheless, part of the CMEI school staff develops the pedagogical work using this topic. This commitment with the reeducation of the ethnic-racial relations has contributed to the children to notice the differences as something positive and to some of these children and black ones to recognize themselves as black and be proud of that. Thus, we emphasize a gender component which underlies the ethnic-racial relations at CMEI: the strategies of positive statement of being a child and a black one are more centered in the girls. While they are encouraged to appreciate their body and their hair, through the care and education dimensions of the stories presented on the childhood literature books, for the boys these strategies have been minimally proposed. For the boy and the black one, there is little visibility and care. For them, there is the wish to change their color/race. Finally, we observe that the children use in their racial self-identification elements that are close to the categories used by the adults, therefore methodologies may be thought so that they are considered as subjects able to name their color/race in official researches.