Abstract

SILVA, Marta Regina Paulo da. Afro-Brazilian Literature in Early Childhood Education: challenges to teacher education. Educ. Form. [online]. 2023, vol.8, e10060.  Epub July 18, 2023. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v8.e10060.

Based on the results of a research that analyzed the representations of black girls in Afro-Brazilian children's literature worked in Early Childhood Education, this article discusses the challenges to teacher education in the realization of an educational work that breaks with racist, sexist and adult-centric pedagogical practices. The research, which had as methodological procedures the survey of Afro-Brazilian literature books used by teachers and the analysis of representations of black girls conveyed in them, dialogued with Freirean epistemology, social studies of childhood and literature. The analysis revealed that Afro-Brazilian literature is little worked in Early Childhood Education and, among the most used books, there are remnants of a Eurocentric perspective, which refers to the need to discuss this theme in training spaces. The article concludes with the defense of a teacher education marked by childhood and intercultural dialogue in the construction of a critical and decolonial intercultural education.

Keywords : Afro-Brazilian literature; Early childhood education; gender; ethnic-racial relations.

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