Nos meandros do processo de formação da identidade profissional de professoras e professores negros.
Abstract
The target of this work is to understand how the formation process of the
professional identity of the black teacher is. For that, I make use of the following
research question: in which circumstances black teachers build their professional
identity and have it recognized? In order to find an answer to this question, this
research is based on concepts like: whitening ideology; racial democracy; personal,
social, ethnic, racial and professional identity formation; and, mainly, in the talk with
the teachers who took part of it. Through the subjectiveness of these teachers I try
to understand how their professional identity takes place and which strategies are
used by them in order to have their professional value recognized in a society that
preaches a supposed equality among all the citizens. Our analysis, made from a
investigative position on the basis of the Phenomenology, is based on what teachers
think about the ethnic and racial relations of their life experiences in family, work and
classroom. So, this work intends to attract attention to the relations in the school
environment, which is not free of racism, the evil that, unfortunately, permeates the
society. This study tries to show what was left to see in the comprehensive
description and the interpretations of the talk we had with the participants. For that,
we made the following question: who are the black teachers in this research? The
black teachers of this study are people to whom the family represents the point on
which they rely for the construction of their values in relation to the study and work.
They are people to whom the study is an open door for the world, to which they give
themselves. They are readers up to some part of their lives they are self-taught.
They are people who have pride of their academic formation and remain in constant
update. They are people who had lived the constraint of the ethnic-racial
discrimination at school or at work. They are professionals who have to show greater
ability at the school environment. They are teachers who work in order to make their
black pupils get a positive auto-esteem. They also work for the equality in relation to
the ethnic-racial and economical-social questions. At last, they are black teachers
who have got the professional recognition.