A EDUCAÇÃO DAS RELAÇÕES ÉTNICO-RACIAIS ATRAVÉS DA ESCUTA SOBRE A HISTÓRIA DE VIDA

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate if and to what extent history lessons based on the experience of the other can contribute for the student to expand his experiences, to recognize the inequalities originated from racial discrimination, to become able to problematize the discriminatory, prejudiced and intolerant discourses, and develop an attitude of rejection towards racial discrimination. The research developed a situation of research-action in the classroom, involving interview about life history, production of narrative and dramatization, with the theme of education of ethnic-racial relations. It should be noted that these activities were based on the experience and knowledge of black people. The questionnaires and practices were applied to seventh year students of a private school in the south of Paraná. Both for history theorist, Jörn Rüsen, and for Education, Jean Piaget, action on the object is indispensable for the construction of historical learning. This learning, as Rüsen points out, is one of the dimensions and manifestations of historical consciousness, which in turn is the process by which sense is attributed to time. For Piaget, the knowledge construction must be coherent with the cognitive, social and emotional development of the student, which can be enhanced by the experience of the interview about life history, narrative production and dramatization. And these active methodologies carry this construction out in a socially complex way, based on social relations, interaction, exchange of knowledge and linkage with life. Therefore, in order to achieve a consistent understanding of the problem, a research-action was developed with the application of questionnaires before and after the socio-educational practices. In the analysis of the data, the results suggest that the students, who had have little (or none) thoughts about racism, after the strategies listed, began to deconstruct it, with a change of attitude. However, in this process it was possible to identify some active, albeit minor, resistances.