The participation of black children in theses, dissertations and scientific articles 2016-2020 in the field of school education in Brazil: The State of the Art.
ethnic-racial relationship, black child, black childhood, school education
The present study intends to analyze the dissertations, theses and articles related to research on/ with black children and their participation in school education. We conducted a survey of dissertations and theses in the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) database and of scientific articles in the Google Scholar search tool. The choice of studies related to the categories “child” and “childhood” has a theoretical-methodological basis in the sociology of childhood according to Manuel Sarmento (2002), childhood and education of ethnic-racial relations (Noguera, 2017), black children (Abramowicz, 2010) and discussion of race and identity (Munanga, 2000; Gomes, 2005). In this survey, we searched for academic productions that express in their abstracts the participation of black children in school education, the understanding of the theoretical-methodological conceptions present in the researches and the referrals that these point to a deepening in the field of education for ethnic-racial relations. The following keywords were highlighted: “black child education”, “black childhood education” in the searches for articles, theses and dissertations, and the theoretical-methodological discussions of these concepts guided the research, analysis of data collected through the survey carried out. As a partial result, we found that black children have been seen in academic productions, sometimes from the perspective of racism, sometimes from the perspective of anti-racism. The data showed the same number of approaches in research for both thematic axes, which means that there is a dialogic order expressed in the field of permanent complaints in research on black children, but on the other hand, anti-racism has disputed territory in research.