Banca de DEFESA: ISABEL FERREIRA FREITAS

Early Childhood Education and Ethnic-Racial Relations: teaching at CMEI's in Maceió-AL

Educação Infantil. Relações Étnico-raciais. Educação Antirracista. Formação Docente. Barbárie.

The study analyzes the issue of ethnic-racial relations in early childhood education in Maceió, considering the national public policies that establish the mandatory inclusion of the theme. The aim is to contribute to a critical reflection on racial issues in municipal early childhood education centers, with a view to rethinking the pedagogical practice at this teaching stage. The methodology of the research discussed consists of an exploratory study with a qualitative approach that is based on the critical theory of society to elaborate the relationship between barbarism, racism and training in early childhood education, and is related to national discussions on education and ethnic-ethnic relations. racial. The material analyzed consists of the speeches of school teams and official documents. For this, the research corpus was composed of two types of documents: official texts from the Ministry of Education and the curricular reference of the city of Maceió, in addition to political-pedagogical projects of early childhood education institutions. The analysis technique used was Laurence Bardin's content analysis (2002), which seeks to infer knowledge about the production conditions of the analyzed materials.