Banca de DEFESA: LUIZ RAFAEL GOMES

The African continent in Geography curricula: from BNCC to EHACAI.  

Africa, BNCC, Geography Teaching. EHCAI.

Based on the understanding that there is racist behavior in all social spheres of our daily life, we seek to analyze how the African continent is portrayed in the topics, contents, and specific competences of the new National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). Together with the experience of the Teaching of African, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture (EHCAI) discipline implemented in 2021 in the municipal teaching network of Magé in the state of Rio de Janeiro. We believe that racism must be fought and eliminated from our society, and the classroom is a privileged place for this. Our work is justified by seeking, in the contents of Geography, more instruments for this fight by valuing knowledge about Africa. Our theoretical-methodological assumptions are decolonial and anti-racist, such as, among others, the ideas of: coloniality of knowledge and power, Eurocentrism, modern colonial world-system, and socio-racial hierarchy. Aiming to outline a critique of what is presented by the texts of the laws, to build a minimally balanced thematic reference between the continents. We used as methods a bibliographical review and the analysis of the curricular prescriptions present in the BNCC, and those referring to the EHCAI discipline, the interview resource helps us in the understanding of the discipline. Criticisms are made to what is presented by the texts of the laws, in order to build a minimally balanced thematic reference. And to understand how new curricular experiences can also contribute to the realization of an anti-racist education.