A cultura afro brasileira nos livros paradidáticos em escolas de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

This paper aims to include in some schools of Santa Maria RS is being applied paradidactic material on the african culture from the Law 10.639 / 2003: Sayings and practices; and how students and teachers are facing the applicability of this material mediator of knowledge acquisition process. Another objective of this research is to reflect on how the black is represented in the textbook and paradidactic. And as their history and their struggles are transmitted in schools. All this because over time the textbooks has undergone changes regarding content and images about african culture, thanks to law created by the professor and sociologist ValterSilverio in 2008. The law 10.639 / 03, which came into force after 116 years of the abolition of slavery, came in order to repair the injustice done not only to blacks, but the entire population, as the forgotten or distorted history belongs to all Brazilians, without color discrimination, sex, gender, ethnicity and religion. To carry out this project were visits and interviews in four schools in Santa Maria and in the city's Department of Education. The work is divided into tree chapters, two theoretical, one methodological and analytical.