Promovendo ações afirmativas: projetos de combate ao preconceito na Escola Estadual Pedro Álvares Cabral em Santarém

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the projects included in the pedagogical program of the State School of Elementary and Middle Education Pedro Álvares Cabral (PAC), referring to affirmative actions aimed at women, indigenous and black people respectively, entitled: Female Empowerment in the Context School, Combating Indigenous Prejudice and The Black Question at School. The methodology of qualitative approach made the movement of analysis of the projects allied to the ethnographic research of the application of the projects, in the context of the Cabral school. We can observe through the work developed the importance of affirmative actions in elementary and high schools so that discrimination as a practice that produces and reproduces racial and/or ethnic violence, gender is increasingly replaced by respect for diversity, since we are formed by a diverse society in terms of gender, race and/or ethnicity. We show through this work that it is not about granting benefits or privileges, but the realization of rights guaranteed by the Constitution. It is necessary that the affirmative action movement be recognized and defended by society to combat the conservative thinking of the elites who try to preserve the community as a space marked by the privilege of the few.