EDUCATION OF ETHNIC-RACIAL RELATIONS IN TEACHING PRACTICE HIGH SCHOOL IN A SCHOOL IN THE CAMPESINO TERRITORY OF PASSIRA-PE: a look at confronting racism
Ethnic-Racial Relations Education; Postcolonial Studies; teaching practice
This research deals with the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations with a view to
Confronting Racism in Teaching Practices in High School in a School in the Campesino
Territory of Passira-PE. It is linked to the Education and Diversity Research Line in the
Post-Graduate Program in Contemporary Education, Master's Course at the Academic
Campus of Agreste, Federal University of Pernambuco. We weave the theoretical-
methodological path of research development in dialogue with the Theoretical
Approach of Post-Colonial Studies, (QUIJANO, 2000, 2005; MIGNOLO 2005;
GROSFOGUEL 2007; WALSH 2008), enabling us to discuss the subjects who were/
they are subordinate. Our General Objective was to understand how high school
teachers at a school located in the countryside of Passira-PE identify and deal with
racism. As Specific Objectives: 1st) To identify the practices of confronting racism
developed by the teachers; 2nd) Identify the teachers' conceptions of racism; 3rd) List
the challenges of teachers in the practices of confronting racism. For data collection
procedures we used the questionnaire (MARCONI; LAKATOS, 1999) and the semi-
structured interview (BARDIN, 2011). In carrying out the data analysis, we used the
technique of Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011) and (VALA, 1990) as a procedure. The
analyzes show that the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations, with a view to
Confronting Racism in teaching practices, translates into a way that teachers, when
faced with situations of racism, promote actions that walk on the frontier of an
education anti-racist through dialogue and interaction with students. The analysis also
reveals practices of an anti-racist education that is consolidated in the tension between
Coloniality/Decoloniality, where we emphasize that the colonial heritage still permeates
the school curriculum and silences contents about other subjects and cultures, with a
predominance of Eurocentrism.