Relações Étnicas e Raciais na Educação Infantil em Santa Maria

Abstract

This work with the thematic “ethnic and racial relations in children’s education in Santa Maria/RS”, presents a study about the understanding of possible factors that may influence the pedagogical practice of the educator to contemplate in Early Childhood Education. It seeks to emphasize the importance of approaching this theme from childhood and in order to build self knowledge and be subjects with formed opinions. Since childhood education, they start to realize the socially constructed difference early, and can generate ideological conflicts, like racism and prejudice, in this way, as the school is a place that qualifies and disqualifies the subjects through social devices of gender, power acquisitive, age range, ethnicity, between others, it is necessary to contemplate the thematic. For the accomplishment of this work, theoretical references pertinent to the subject were approached, using authors as Barbosa (2007), Rosemberg (2014) and the National Curriculum Guidelines for early childhood Education (2009), as well the use of a qualitative and emploratory approach, because it tried to explain the reason of the things, being realized the interpretation of meanings of a certain culture or ideology, assisting in the analysis of the objects of interest.