(Re)pensando a diversidade no ambiente escolar: desmistificando ideias conservadoras

Abstract

This article, a cutout from an intervention project named “Tolerating the Different Does not Help Acceptance of Differences”, developed from 17th to 26th february 2016, which aimed to educate the school community about respect for diversity and differences., demistifying prejudiced and discriminatory ideas propagated by society. The research has a qualitative nature that consisted of a training for the school community of the Municipal School of Basic Education Maria da Glória Duarte de Omena, located in Messias City/AL, through meetings where conversations wheels were made, delivery of questionnaires, as well as exchange of experiences through reports by experienced educators in the exercise of their profession. Therefore, it started with the following questions: How diversity is worked out by the teachers? This central question of research, unfolds in other secondary questions, such as: what is the position of teachers in the face of prejudice and discrimination? In order to justify the work, we use authors as Deschatzky e Skliar (2000), Junqueira (2009), Araújo e Santos (2001), Barreto (2015), among others authors that help us reflect on discussions about diversity and the role that school plays in addressing these issues. So, on the wheels of conversations teachers reported that they find it difficult to deal with situations of prejudice in the classroom. We conclude that it is necessary for teachers to seek pedagogical ways and practices, through dialogues with their students, that let them reflect on situations of prejudice, in which everyone can have respect each individual particularities. Thus, the school must guarantee a non-discriminatory and democratic education, fighting to provide na environment of respect, equality, citizenship, freedom and justice, demystifying conservative ideas and visions.