O ponto de parada: racismo na escola, alunos negros na EJA

Abstract

The proposal of this paper is to observe if the racism in the school environment can act like an active element of excludability of the African descent (black people) students and half-blooded ones in the elementary grades, leading them, afterwards, to the classrooms of Adults and Young Education (AYE).The research’s locus was an uptown school, in the suburb of Maceio, where the observation was made in three shifts (morning, afternoon and night), watching the relations among the students from first grade until AYE.Questionnaires were applied with students from the night-school, which ones also were submitted to semi-structured interviews. Others participants of the school routine contributed with opened interviews. The watching process allowed us the direct experience in pedagogy; to be sure that racism really acts in school. For that, we took base on serious theories by studious as APPLE; McLAREN; MUNANGA; OLIVEIRA among others that broach the education and social- anthropological subject.The results allow us to say that beyond the already known and studied economic factors, racism in school can act as one more excluding element, affecting the African descent students’history.For this reason, there is the need of including this debate in the teachers’ background, which will be reflected in schools and society.