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Revista de Educação PUC-Campinas

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RODRIGUES, Tatiane Cosentino; OLIVEIRA, Fabiana Luci de  and  SANTOS, Fernanda Vieira da Silva. Implementation challenges of Law 10.639/03: A case study in municipalities in the State of São Paulo. Educ. Puc. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.3, pp.281-294. ISSN 2318-0870.  https://doi.org/10.5965/151939932112016281.

A decade after the approval of Law 10.639/03, how has the implementation process of the law been? Law 10.639/03 amended Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education making the teaching of History and Afro-Brazilian Culture mandatory in public and private elementary and high schools. This article endeavors to answer this question from the perspective of the two main actors involved in the process of law implementation: teachers and administrators. The aim is to understand if and how the theme of ethnic and racial relations and African and African-Brazilian culture has been addressed in the public child and elementary school. We focus on the practice of continuing education for teachers based on the data from a 180-hour training course during 2014 in 12 municipalities in the State of São Paulo. At the first meeting, teachers and administrators were invited to answer a diagnostic questionnaire, which included personal information, knowledge on the subject and their views on teaching practices according to Law 10.639/03. A total of 1,272 participants, 1,134 teachers and 138 administrators, participated in the study and facilitating and impeding elements concerning the implementation of the law were identified in accordance with their answers. These included unfamiliarity, disinterest and conflicting political positions on the issue. The results show that the issue is not widely discussed in schools or during initial training of these teachers and administrators.

Keywords : Teacher training; Education for ethnic-racial relations; Law 10.639/03..

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