Teaching discipline, the racism and the education for ethnic-racial relations: meetings and reflections

Abstract

This experiences report comes from the life experiences of three women: a writer, a Teaching college professor and a student of the course. It was produced in the context that the work with Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations (EERR) in the initial training in the Pedagogy course at UFPR was able to articulate. We presented and problematized the legislations and guidelines that determine the compulsory nature of the theme as a curricular component in the various stages of formal education, including undergraduate courses, as stated in the National Curriculum Guidelines for initial training at higher level. The paper is organized in three moments. Initially, the writer-activist-professor traces a route of normalization that make EERR a right and the literature an instrument for the realization of that right. In a second moment, the Teaching professor problematizes the racism as a structuring element in the production of school failure. Finally, the student reports her experience when the issue is addressed through an activity carried out in the discipline that unites Literature, EERR and Teaching. The experience reports allow us to conclude that the initial training can account for what the legislation prescribes regarding the EERR and that it is linked to the knowledge provided in the field of Teaching and that the participants in the experience intertwine their life stories and produce knowledge that underlies and enhances anti-racist educational practices.