Abstract

RIBEIRO, Patrícia Batista  and  SANTOS, Roseli Albino dos. Racial ethnic diversity and social interactions in Early Childhood Education. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.11, n.3, pp.985-1000. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271991898.

This article is related to the daily of children in early Childhood Education in regard to social interactions established in that school environment in relation to the black child. It presents an analysis of a survey carried out in an early Childhood Education Institution, which aimed to investigate how social interactions and race relations took place between black and white children and the teacher’s room. Understanding that the school environment should be an environment that respects the child in their individualities and assist in the development of interaction skills and respect for others, it is important to discuss racial ethnic diversity in school. For the study we used as data collection instruments interviews and observations of school space and classroom routine. The results showed that children from very small know and employ ethnic racial categories in their dialogues. It was observed that in times of play, they were more free and autonomous to express their opinions, racial ethnic issues arose in his dialogues, however, during the games they related without the racial belonging impair their interactions. Experiences practices that racial ethnic diversity was present it seemed possible to the children that this matter be treated more naturally for them. We seek through this text highlight the presence of racial ethnic issues in the context of early childhood education.

Keywords : Racial ethnic diversity; Childhood education; Social interactions..

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