O silêncio: um ritual pedagógico a favor da discriminação racial: (um estudo acerca da discriminação racial como fator de seletividade na escola pública de primeiro grau - 1ª a 4ª série)

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to investigate: a) how ethnicprejudice (against black people) is manifested in public primaryschool; and b) how the "Movimento Negro Unificado - (M.N.U.)"(nni^fied Negro Mouvemente) intends to interfere in the school organization,with the purpose of eliminating racial discrimination. The research was done in two phases. In the first phase, teache'rs conceptions about blackcontribution to "brasilian culturç" wíis investigated: contents refering to the development of brazilian people that are usually transmited through the discipline "Social Studies" were selected; then, by using questionnaires, in terviews, and participant observations of teachers meetings, the researcher submited those contents to the critical appreciation of teachers. Nine schools were included in the study, classified according to their location: there were rural and urban schools,and also schools located in the pour boundaries of the city. Allteachers in each school were interviewed. In the second phase, the M.N.U. Action program was examined in order to identify its educative project elaborated with the purpose of fightin racial discriminations. The M.N.U. educative project was then confronted with data obtained in schools, in order to identify similarities and differences between these ^two educative sources. The study was complemented by intervie>; done with a group of black activists involved in works " related to the educational area. The results of this investigation indicated the : differentforms by which racial discrimination against black people ...iimáriifestin schools. Discrimination is, in fact, present in the kind of informationthat teachers transmit to the children, and, also, in the school rituals. Among these schools rituals, can be mentioned the silence of the teachers in presence of discriminatory acts against black children.