Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations and Cultural Diversity

Target Audience

The course is aimed at professionals graduated in various fields of knowledge.

Objectives

The specialization course in Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations and Cultural Diversity aims to promote the professional development of teachers, researchers, and graduates, encouraging them to understand and reflect on the historical experiences and cultural productions of the black population in Africa and its diaspora to Brazil, seen as the foundation of Brazilian society and identity.

• Raise awareness among teachers from different disciplines about the importance of including Afro-Brazilian themes in the school curriculum
   
• Equip education professionals with the foundations, content, and concepts proposed by Law 10.639/2003, which amends the Guidelines and Bases of Education Law of 1996, establishing the mandatory inclusion of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture in the school curriculum as fundamental for disseminating knowledge produced by humanity, relating to the theme and providing possibilities for educational practices, constituting axes that articulate the disciplines of Portuguese Language, History, Geography, Arts Education, Physical Education, Sciences, among other subjects in the school curriculum.
   
• Trace knowledge about the issues involving Africans in Africa and the African diaspora to Brazil, especially regarding the civilizing process, ethnicity, historicity, and participation, as well as the accumulated capital of knowledge and human culture over millennia as an integral part of human history;
   
• Promote knowledge in Afro-Brazilian literature and art;
   
• Ground the discussion of gender, race, and ethnicity
   
• Ground the discussion on Afro-Brazilian religiosity
   
• Promote discussions and organize working groups aimed at research, construction, and use of new teaching materials.