Abstract

LEISTNER, Rodrigo Marques  and  FANTI, Mabielle Pedra. Let's talk about gypsies? Educational projects, representations and the deconstruction of stigma in the school environment. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.71, pp.2038-2066.  Epub Jan 26, 2022. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.21.071.ao09.

The paper addresses the complexities that involve the insertion of themes such as “gipsy peoples” and “gipsy culture” in the educational field. Taking as a starting point the history of prejudiced actions and characterizations about these peoples in the wider society, the text problematizes the ways in which these tense realities can be “negotiated” within the school, from two perspectives: (i) evaluate how the pejorative representations about gypsies and their cultures are updated in the school environment; (ii) verify the possibilities of deconstructing those representations from the realization of specific educational projects. To this end, together with a review of the specialized literature and observation of secondary data, a set of pedagogical activities devoted to ethnic-racial issues and the gypsy theme was undertaken in a Municipal Elementary School in the public network of the city of Rio Grande, south region of Rio Grande do Sul. If, on the one hand, the persistence of negative representations about the subjects and gypsy culture in certain school communities is evident, it is assessed that certain educational projects enhance the integrating role of the school through processes of recognition different knowledge and the cultural and ethnic diversity of Brazilian society.

Keywords : Gypsies; Social representations; Stigma; Ethnic-racial relations; Educational projects.

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