O Ensino da História da África nas Escolas Brasileiras

Esse estudo tem como suporte teórico a Lei 10.639, de 2003, que alterou a Lei 9.394, de 1996, pela qual haviam sido estabelecidas as bases da educação nacional, para incluir no currículo oficial da Rede de Ensino a obrigatoriedade do ensino da História da África e da Cultura Afro-Brasileira. Essas medidas tiveram como meta a adoção de uma pedagogia antiracista e de valorização do negro no contexto social e cultural do país, enquanto componente da população brasileira. Decorridos sete anos da implantação da referida Lei, analisados os processos de capacitação docente, as diretrizes curriculares, o material didático e os procedimentos metodológicos para a sua aplicação, fica evidente que o objetivo de proporcionar uma educação mais compatível com uma sociedade democrática, multicultural e pluriétnica ainda está longe de ser atingido. Pretende-se aqui analisar as razões pelas quais esses resultados ainda permanecem incipientes e insatisfatórios na sua finalidade pedagógica

A transnacionalização das políticas educativas : itinerários da cooperação portuguesa em Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e S. Tomé e Príncipe (1974-2002)

The main focus of the present investigation is on the transnationalization of the education policies in Cape Verde, Guine-Bissau and San Tome and Prince from 1974 to 2002 and it deals mostly with the role played by the Portuguese co operants in this field, namely teachers, teacher trainers and education technicians. Our investigation is based mostly on the theoretical and empiric analysis of the problematic of the transnatio nalizaton of the education policies, bearing in mind the concepts formulated by several renowned authors like those by Stone(2001, 2004) as well as by Dolowitz and Marsch (2002) concerning the area of knowledge transfer. The concept transnationalization we have used throughout this dissertationshould be interpreted as a carrefour , that is, a crossroad of technical knowledge, resulting from the way the different mediators have shared their expertise and who gradually contributed to the implementation of the new education systems and the consolidation of the education policies of the countries just mentioned before. We have also analyzed specific points of reference connected both with globalization and organization sociology theories since the school is the main scope of action where the participants interact using diversified strategies due to their different interests and aims. Those schools are more and more confronted with education policies resulting from neoliberal assumptions therefore we label them terminals of the education policy journeys. The naturalist paradigm, which includes a qualitative and interpretative approach, answers for the design of this investigation, whose main strategy is the Oral History. The primary sources analyzed and the interviews made have enabled us to build our knowledge based on the grounded theory method (Glasser and Strauss, 1967), supported by the informatic programme Atlas TI. We conclude that despite the weaknesses and fragilities of the Portuguese cooperation, this is the right arena for a more convergent transference of values and education (al) systems; it is a kind of hybrid territory where the knowledge transfer suits the local reality, independently of all the dilemmas resulting from globalization.