AÇÕES AFIRMATIVAS NO IF GOIANO CAMPUS URUTAÍ: VIABILIDADE PARA FORTALECIMENTO DA IDENTIDADE NEGRA

Abstract

This study had as main objective to understand how the black students of the IF Goiano Campus Urutaí, deal with their racial identities in the school environment and what role the school plays in the construction of these identities. We propose: i) To identify the current school experience of black students at Campus Urutaí; ii) Check, from the perception of black students, whether racial issues are addressed and how they are dealt with in school routine; iii) Identify the institution's contributions to the construction / fragmentation of the identity of black students. We start from the following question: what would be the role of the school in these dimensions and in the production of black identities? Does the school environment reinforce or camouflage the construction of black identity? To this end, nineteen high school students from the Urutaí Campus participated, who declared themselves to be blacks (blacks or browns) who were willing to contribute to the research. Due to the social remoteness imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, data were collected via the internet, through a closed interview with a structured questionnaire. At the end of the interview, we concluded that most were unable to identify racial discrimination in the classroom, little promotion of actions / events on the theme and important consideration regarding promotion, a significant lack of knowledge about Neabi and also about the existence of quotas. Thus, we developed as an educational product, a workshop to bring understanding of these affirmative action policies promoted by the institution. Nineteen people participated in the workshop, of which 15 responded to the evaluation form. In the questions, they evaluated the importance, relevance of past information, consistency, the use of the workshop as an object of learning, motivation regarding participation and raising doubts about the information explained. We can conclude that the educational product has fulfilled its objective as a learning object, proving to be satisfactory in terms of its importance and relevant amount of information. We saw that the information was organized in a coherent way and capable of providing learning, leaving a small margin of doubt. We hope that from the promotion of this workshop, you will be encouraged to promote more moments like this, thus leading to the understanding of affirmative actions that contribute to the strengthening of black identity, positively stimulating institutions in favoring the public of discriminated social segments, building respect and ethnic-racial recognition.