O ensino de história afro-brasileira e africana: a Lei 10.639/03 e sua aplicabilidade no Centro de Ensino Paulo VI, São Luís / MA

Abstract

On the best performance of the practice of school education in Brazil, and especially in Maranhão, from the requirements contained in Law 10.639 sanctioned in 2003 under the then presidency of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva is what this paper proposes to address. The compulsory teaching of History of Africa in public and private educational institutions throughout the country comes as a primordial artifice of educational readjustment to Brazilian education awaited by social movements that have struggled so much and still struggle against inequalities, among which we have the Black Movement. The law "contemplates the study of the history of Africa and the Africans, the struggle of the blacks in Brazil, the Brazilian black culture and the black in the formation of the national society, valuing the participation of the black people in the social, political and economic areas" (SANTOS, 2009, p.267). To analyze how the teaching and learning of Afro Brazilian and African History and Culture has been given through interviews and questionnaires applied to teachers and students of the Paul VI Teaching Center, state school of Maranhão, seeking changes in a social reality loaded with prejudices, Plus an educational and structural rethinking of school is our main goal.