Invisibilidade negra na educação: análises com base na experiência de uma professora de uma escola pública de Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

The subject of this research was to understand the representations of a teacher from the municipal educational system in the city of Juiz de Fora, MG, regarding the black students in school routine, having as mobilizing questions how their life history and his early training and continued influence in their representations concerning black people and their everyday work with them. The proposed reflection is based on the theoretical principles of the Anthropology of the Imaginary from the perspective of Gilbert Durand, who reveals through his symbolic hermeneutics the need for contextual readings of the symbolic, as well as understand these phenomenon of reference different from traditional arisen in modernity, deriving an epistemological position that claims the place of an emerging theoretical field, where knowledge should consider the various dimensions of human, the rational and the emotional. This field seeks to promote the multidisciplinary meeting, bringing together the diversity of knowledge that lead man to understand himself as a symbolic animal. The methodology used in the research is the narrative that can be understood as a chance to go through memories that have been built on listening by artisan form, as a play of life and one to approach the investigated everyday, on which happens an encounter of lives the narrator and the researcher. The investigated schoolteacher called Hope, it has a story of life and professional characterized by difficulties in dealing with the ethnic-racial themes and with her black students. She tends to blame blacks for their results only seen as negative within the school. It is recurrent in her narrative the time for school change with the influx of black students which it has brought questions silenced demands in relation to racial issues. Such recurrence binds the teaching activities for Hope not contemplate contents related to history and African culture and Afro-Brazilian. The absences are due to factors as non-presence in the initial education process and continuing issues related to diversity and by continuing in the school environment everyday education domain embedded in the classical paradigm that keep way or silence the afetual and the different education.