As relações raciais: uma avaliação da efetividade do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático - PNLD 2015

Abstract

The school is a place of dispute of conceptions and visions of the world. In relation to ethnic-racial issues, this dispute runs through two visions, the first is focused on a unilateral Eurocentric perspective, which reproduces a supposed inferiority of African people and their descendants by overvaluing the historical and cultural experiences of the segment supposedly "superior", devaluing and stereotyping the cultural, historical, identical of Africans and Afro-descendants. The second view perceives school as a place of deconstruction of this "inferiority" attributed to Africans and Afro-Brazilians. The research "Racial relations: an evaluation of the effectiveness of the National Program of Didactic Book (PNLD 2015)", is an analysis about public policy of teaching materials in relation to their compliance with the National Curricular Guidelines for Education of Ethnic and Racial Relations for the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture. We search identify how the contents of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture are dealt in the books of History approved by the program. We wish evaluate, if these didactic materials are in accord with is established by the guidelines, it means, if they incorporated in their contents an African, Afro-Brazilian history and culture in a positive way. The methodological process consisted of a documentary research and content analysis in three didactic collections approved by the program. The result points to a partial effectiveness of this public policy, as far possible, the approach to themes of African and Afro-Brazilian history and culture receives a general and simplified treatment, not necessarily negative, but rather superficial.