Estudo de caso da implementação da temática: história e cultura afro-brasileira, em uma unidade de educação infantil da rede municipal de educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the implementation of the Law Nº 10.639/2003. This Law, which amended the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (Law Nº 9.394/1996), included the topic “Afro-Brazilian History and Culture” as a mandatory part of the Child Education Curriculum. The present research is based on a Case Study and has the intention of observing how a Child Education school organized itself in order to put such topic and the contents of this Law into practice. This paper tries to understand how curricular proposals of the municipal education system at Belo Horizonte are related to the contents of the Law Nº 10.639/2003 and how such contents have been carried out at a child education school. In addition, we intend to analyze, first, the actions suggested by teachers as well as the management board to implement the Law Nº 10.639/2003 in Child Education; second, what kind of interventions are being performed by teachers; third, which theoretical literature supports such interventions and, finally, how the topic of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture articulates, in a larger scale, to the political pedagogical project (PPP). At the end of the project, we intend to suggest an Educational Actions Project (PAE) for the school analyzed in this research. The results presented in this paper were achieved through qualitative research which enabled to bring forward the full load of values and all richness of emotions experienced by the interviewees. This method also allowed a contextualized reading of the facts that were found. The research took place at a Child Education Unit (UMEI) of Belo Horizonte municipal Education System (RME – BH) and the following tools for social research were applied for data collection: participant observation, document analysis, literature review about the topic, and semi-structured interview. Some outcomes of this study were the possibility of teachers having a larger understanding of the subject and the encouragement for expansion of this theme no only by the management board. The Assessment of ethno-racial and cultural issues with young children can produce positive results, since they begin to think about differences (not only those related to skin tone) as something existent in their daily life.