Travessias (Dec 2011)

SCHOOL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND TEENS QUILOMBOLA REMAINING IN RURAL SCHOOL: SAME REFECTIONS

  • Cláucia Honnef,
  • Marco Antônio Verardi Fialho

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3

Abstract

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The black Brazilian population long remained invisible to laws and guidelines of the right to education. This situation changes after a few national and international movements for equality of access to school space and the appreciation of diversity in this place. These movements in Brazil influence a process of social inclusion and visibility of the black population, ensuring by a law, access to school education and recognition of the black population in the history from this country. However, observing the national rates of illiteracy, this is higher among black people living in rural areas. This situation reveals that is need look more into this space, for the education of the black populations remnants of quilombo communities that living in rural areas. Therefore, this article seeks to do this and offer some reflections on school education and school inclusion of children and adolescents afro-descendents in rural. Furthermore, based on literature research, here are also presented some notes regarding the consideration and approach to culture of the black people, the black in the formation of the national society, rescuing the contribution of black people quilombola in the part social, economic and political from the history of Brazil. Thus, it is believed necessary to attend the execution of the provisions on the legal parameters on the education of black people remaining of quilombos, who live in rural areas, since this is very important for guarantee of academic success and permanence for this population in the school space.

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