LEI 10.639/03 - A INSERÇÃO DA HISTÓRIA AFRICANA E AFRO-BRASILEIRA DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL NAS ESCOLAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE CORUMBÁ, MS

Abstract

In 2005, the Municipal Department of Education of Corumbá offered training for education professionals (teachers, pedagogical coordinators), with the objective of working on ethnic-racial relations in the classroom, directly related to the practices proposed in Law 10.639/03, which amends the LDB/1996, to include, in the official curriculum of the Brazilian Education Network, in all public and private schools from elementary to high school, the mandatory theme “History and Afro-Brazilian Culture”. It is understood that law 10.639/03 is a legal instrument that enables the construction of an anti-racist education. It is with attention to this law that this project was developed. The objective of this research was to verify how law 10.639/03, which makes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture mandatory, is being carried out in schools in the municipal network of Corumbá-MS. The specific objectives were: - Find out if teachers are aware of Law 10.639/03; Check whether teachers apply antiracist strategies in their pedagogical practice; Know which anti- racist strategies teachers use in the classroom; and Identify how often the theme of racism at school is present in the teachers' pedagogical practice. To carry out the empirical work, three municipal schools were chosen to learn about the practices adopted. The schools fulfill the characteristics: offer two stages of Basic Education (kindergarten and elementary education), have a large number of enrolled students; and that it is, in a way, representative of one of the localities of the municipality: central region, neighborhood, and rural area. The subjects are the teachers of these schools, invited to answer a questionnaire with closed and open questions about the development or not of pedagogical practices about Afro-Brazilian History and Culture.To analyze the relationship between school and society, we base ourselves on the understanding that education is political because it interacts in the process of production and diffusion of worldviews and in the transformation of these into collective will. (FREIRE, 1994). The results showed that most of the participants knowe law, consider it important and that, in some way, they develop activities on the issueof racism at school. It was also verified that there is a need for training on this subject for teachers.