Educação Infantil e a criança negra: análise das produções do PPGE UFSCar sobre as relações étnico-raciais na infância (2004-2018)

Abstract

The present work deals with the black theme in early childhood education, especially in how teaching and research on racial issues aimed at childhood contribute to combat actions that minimize and disregard social, political and historical issues that influence the treatment of the black population, especially children. The study relies on fragmented knowledge in 11 national academic productions, and the research is the product of a critical review of specialized literature. The methodological approach admitted refers to a bibliographic analysis from the perspective of qualitative research, which allows investigating and interpret the contributions of the authors in an analytical way, going through the lines of research, educational practices, as well as the levels of commitment, understanding and construction of individual and collective conceptions in relation to the theme. The study's main goal is to analyze how the selected researchers analyze and present in their scope racial and ethnic issues in Early Childhood Education, as well as the young black child. For this, the theoretical and methodological reference is based on the analysis of dissertations and theses produced with a time frame of 2004 to 2018 in the base of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of São Carlos. In addition, it seeks to locate methodologies present in academic productions that indicate principles of an anti-racist education in childhood, which must necessarily be inclusive in all its levels and forms, changing the conditions of existence of racialized populations, present in the social. The problem that guides the development of this study was thus stipulated: "How does the research produced in the scope of the PPGE of UFSCar analyze and present ethno-racial issues in Early Childhood Education and the black child? What would be the contributions of such works to foster an anti-racist pedagogical practice in childhood?". The results perceived with the research unfold harmful relations that cause infinite violence in Children's Education, which brings innumerable aspects to collaborate about the importance of ethno-racial teaching since Children's Education and the positive impact that it promotes in the psyche of children, as well as, the importance of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture in the school and in the formation of teachers, in order to eliminate the diverse forms of racism and discrimination that still prevail in our educational institutions.