Histórias de Ébano: professoras negras de educação infantil da cidade de São Paulo / Stories Ebony: black teachers early childhood education in São Paulo.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

18/04/2012

RESUMO

The questions that oriente this work first started when, observing the universe of Childhood Education in the Municipality of São Paulo, I did not find sufficient documents that attested the presence of black women at that level of education. From a field research in all thirty municipal schools of Childhood Education, in one of the thirteen directories of Education of the city, located in an area considered in the periphery, there was a contact with these women who declared themselves black, racially classified through questionnaires that had been sent to them. I realised interviews with eight of them, collecting material for the record of their life stories and professional trajectories. I introduce the sensible experiences of the black women interviewed and their relations to pedagogical work, as well as their perceptions about racism, sexism, and knowlegde. From their words, the shared understanding at the end of this research states the real importance of professorship, this being an additional possible area of performance for them, \ naturally\ linked to jobs seen as inferior in the scale of social prestige, namely, domestic or cleaning employment. This research notes the importance of, despite the knowledge of how much racism contributed to the confinment of black women in positions considered as subordinate in our society, becoming a teacher for young children keeps other possible meanings to be understood only when black women talk about their own lives. This work dares revindicating the power still present in this profession, for a black population of low income, which is a possible way to give sense to the life of these women who, regardless of the lack of opportunities, follow surviving and negociating life how the can.

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black female teachers childhood education educação infantil mulheres negras professoras oral life stories relatos orais de vida

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