GEOGRAPHY AND RACIAL RELATIONS IN DIDACTIC BOOKS OF INITIAL YEARS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE COMMON CURRICULAR NATIONAL BASIS
Textbook; geography; coloniality; racism.
This research intends to investigate the racial ideologies present in the textbooks of geography of the initial years of the public network of Mesquita / RJ. The textbook is the main pedagogical resource used by teachers and students in the classroom, and carries beyond an official curriculum, conceptions of teaching and subjectivities. How is the presence of the black population in Brazil written in space? For this approach, I take as a theoretical perspective the coloniality of power, an epistemological alternative to the narratives of European modernity, which is present in geography by producing universal references from the concept of race. I also see the need to stress the geography curriculum, especially after the implementation of the National Curricular Common Base, which had its third version homologated in December 2017: would it be possible for the child to be able to access an education that respects diversity in the face of a policy that establishes pedagogical guidelines through a competency-oriented curriculum and aimed at strengthening a national identity? The research is also seeking to understand the orientation of the edict of the National Book and Didactic Material Program on the geography curriculum component. Do the new guidelines take or hide diversity? What are the proposals presented by geography theorists who discuss the racial question? And I intend to conclude by analyzing the structure and content of the two textbooks with the highest number of indications made by the teachers of the fourth year of elementary school, aiming to identify conceptual problems, changes and continuities, under the light of Law 10.639 / 03, decisive in the struggle for antiracist education.