The Role of the School and the Continuing Education of Teachers in Ethnic-Racial Relations in an Experience in the Community of Curuzu, Salvador-Ba

Abstract

The present work aims to reflect on the pedagogical experience in the community of Curuzu through pedagogical coordination in the Lato-Sensu Specialization entitled “African and Afro-Brazilian Studies Methodology” of Integrated Colleges Olga Mettig in 2007. The General Objective was to train of education professionals and related areas on Law 10,639 and its operation in pedagogical work, whether carried out in the classroom or in another collective learning space. The specific objectives were: to provide pedagogical subsidies on Law 10.639 and to promote pedagogical interaction between the various cultural matrices that formed the Brazilian territory. This course was intended to comply with the operation of Law 10.639/03, having as its main target audience educators and graduates in the area of human and social sciences. The main results of this experience revolve around the access for educators to decolonial and anti-racist theories. Other important results revolved around the work of education professionals who received postgraduate degrees, where they demonstrated insertion in various segments of Bahian society, such as centuries-old institutions such as the Society for the Protection of the Underprivileged (SPD), founded 190 years ago, as well as in schools traditional public and private education systems and in Afro and Afoxé blocks.