Abstract

SILVA, Paulo Vinicius Baptista da  and  BORBA, Carolina dos Anjos de. Affirmative Action in Brazilian Educational Research. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.69, pp.151-191. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.58095.

This paper analyses the affirmative action category from the Ethnic-Race Education in Brazil Report. In the first part are analyzed data of the identified publications, 95 articles and 69 theses and dissertations. The papers published had gradual increase until 2012, with decrease in 2013 and 2014; higher concentration in higher quality evaluation extracts; published in journals of the Southeast and Midwest regions; gender authorship distribution balanced. The 54 dissertations and 15 theses had a gradual increase until 2011, with a decrease mainly in 2013 and 2014; dispersion of programs and counselors with concentration in the Southeast, followed by the Midwest and South. The second part presents an analytical summary of the 95 articles and their arguments and results. The recurrent themes, emerging themes and gaps were discussed. The topic of affirmative policies in Brazilian education presents, in articles published in journals in the area of education, a field that has been growing and with relevant analyzes. There are many topics to be addressed by the research, in particular: affirmative policies in postgraduate and teaching; greater investment in studies on permanence, changes in universities and curricular policies that accompany affirmative policies; of identity policies; studies with a more general approach or syntheses.

Keywords : Affirmative action; Ethnic and race relations; Systematic review; Racism; Educational policies..

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