Projeto Conexão Afro em Combate: ações e desafios para uma educação antirracista na Escola Irmã Theodora (Marabá, 2015-2020)

Abstract

This work presents aspects related to the history of the city of Marabá, as well as the Bairro Liberdade, highlighting its geographic and socioeconomic characteristics, in order to contextualize the dynamics that involve the surroundings of Escola Irmã Theodora, where the Conexão Afro Project is developed. , where research makes its emphasis. Thus, it uses documentary sources, data and research related to school education in the municipality of Marabá in order to better understand the tensions in which they are inserted. In this geographic and time frame, between the years of project development (2015-2020), the research also seeks to reflect on the challenges faced by the school body for the development of teaching based on education for ethnic-racial relations and point out actions and challenges of interdisciplinary projects as tools for confronting and combating the reproductions of prejudiced and racist practices inside and outside the school environment. Thus, the research is justified by presenting and analyzing some of the pedagogical actions developed by the Conexão Afro Project, as well as the project's challenges and achievements, in order to join forces in the struggle for an antiracist education and aims to understand how the School Irmã Theodora, from the Conexão Afro Project, contributes to the construction of a positive ethnic-racial identity and works to combat racism, enabling critical teaching, using oral history as a methodology to achieve this proposal, through interviews, and the use of institutional documents.