Ethnic-racial relations: a look at the curriculum of Nature Sciences of Espírito Santo

Abstract

In the present work, we approach the theme "Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture" from the approval of Law 10639/2003, which modified the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (LDB – Law 9394/1996). In this context, we aim to explore the themes related to education for ethnic-racial relations present in the curricular documents of High School in the area of Natural Sciences and its Technologies of the State Department of Education of Espírito Santo. For the development of this study, we conducted a qualitative-quantitative research, with descriptive purposes, having its objectives and methods based on the principles of bibliographic and documentary research. The digital documents “Introductory text – High School” and “Curriculum of Espírito Santo: Natural Sciences and its technologies” were selected to compose the corpus of the research, in which we used a textual analysis application. Among the results, we highlight the need to analyze the policies of "official knowledge" in the context of critical and post-critical theories of the curriculum. In addition, we emphasize the importance of understanding education as a political and cultural process, taking into account the productive context and ideological dynamics in educational processes. Thus, we underline the importance of a teaching that perceives the sciences as human constructions rooted in historical and multicultural contexts, influenced by various issues.