Professoras negras: narrativas e memórias dos percursos escolares e de formação

Abstract

The work presented here has as its theme the professional trajectory and formation of black women and black teachers. Having as a general objective to identify the life trajectory of black teachers, their narratives and memory and as specific objectives To inventory the life trajectory of black teachers from the narratives, as well as to contribute to the writing of the history and memory of the black teachers who acted and or work in schools in Goiânia.The methodology used is based on oral history, used in qualitative research, which is distinguished by the possibility and an exchange procedure between interviewer and interviewee. It is noteworthy that in oral history the main focus is on oral statements with all their particularities. It is also noteworthy that the interest in using this methodology aimed to privilege the experiences of black teachers and their life trajectories, their history and their daily lives. These trajectories have specialties and a specificity of elements that refer to the common memories of other black women teachers. Highlighting their ways of seeing life are their own, but they occur in a context whose various limitations are common to all black teachers. And among them, racial prejudice. The criterion of choosing the subjects to participate in the research occurred in order to contemplate the necessity proposed by the research: to be teachers and assert themselves as black. In general, the black teachers interviewed exposed conceptions and opinions about racism, prejudice, inferiority, devaluation, economic inequalities, school, academic trajectory, female appearance, gender inequality, work, protagonism, resistance and empowerment that underlie the categories. narratives, as well as life experiences in this school and training path. In the final considerations, the researcher presents the results in order to present the non-answers, but rather the challenges that reaffirm the need for the importance of the research object, as well as the need to expand the theoretical studies in the area. It is in this perspective of dialogue that this dissertation presents itself to its readers: examine the relevance and achievements of women, regarding their role, especially in our society, field of great struggles and claims for civil, political and social rights to grasp the roles conferred on them. It is emphasized that there is much to research on the subject. However, a highlight to the research process that provided the researcher with a social process of identity construction, political resistance, reflection, formation / self-formation, (re) meaning, attitudes with facts narrated by the protagonists. They brought / revealed a greatness when they narrated their own life story, and of knowledge and meanings, hitherto silenced, but which believe that education (as this researcher) is emerging as a conducive way for the search for tools to overcome and strengthen the empowerment of women, black women and professionals