Banca de DEFESA: Maria Carolina Almeida De Azevedo

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Maria Carolina Almeida De Azevedo
DATE: 16/12/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Educação
TITLE:

BOLEKAJA LESSONS: ANTIRACIST AND AFROCENTERED PEDAGOGICAL
EXPERIENCES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING.

KEY WORDS:

English language teaching; Bolekaja; Ethnic-racial relations

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SUMMARY:

The present research aims to analyze the author's pedagogical experiences based on antiracist
and afrocentered principles. The activities are divided between pedagogical actions performed
with students of 2nd grade and students of Youth and Adult Education of the Municipal
Secretariat of Education of Rio de Janeiro in 2019 and three formative meetings with teachers
and other professionals linked to the teaching of English language, which were promoted by
the British Council of Education. As a theoretical basis, but not the only one, some precepts
present in works by authors belonging to Bolekaja Criticism such as Chinweizu ET AL.
(1975), Wa Thiong'o (2021) and Mudimbe (2013), as well as theorists from other African and
Afrodiasporic movements such as Asante (2017) and Appiah (2018). Here I describe the
Bolekaja social movement and Bolekaja Criticism, drawing on the work of Anyaegbunam
(1994), focusing on how the metaphors of these movements have served as inspiration to
build bridges with the study here. The aim of this research is to understand how the
connection between English language teaching and ethnic-racial relations is established, and
how this relationship echoes in some agents present in this process such as teachers, students,
English language teaching and the researcher. Furthermore, I intend to investigate how the
lessons present in Bolekaja Criticism can contribute to the development of an English
language teaching modeled towards the objectives and improvement of the indigenous and
black Brazilian populations. The methodology used in this research will be autobiographical
narrative, since it is a study of experiences lived by the teacher himself. The results and
conclusions are not yet published in this document but, certainly, they hope to collaborate
with a more responsible, equitable, humanized, racially and socially committed English
language teaching for the Brazilian education and population.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1450821 - LUIZ FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA
Externa ao Programa - 1306112 - VIVIANE CONCEICAO ANTUNES - UFRRJExterna à Instituição - ALYXANDRA GOMES NUNES - UNEB
Externa à Instituição - CINTIA CAMARGO VIANNA - UFU