Ensino de literatura afro-brasileira no curso de letras português da UTFPR: análise dos documentos norteadores

Abstract

The Law 10.639 of 2003 established the mandatory teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture in all stages of education, só teacher training needs to follow this demand and offer students the necessary qualification for the exercise of an education committed to combating racism in school. In this research, we sought to make a diagnosis of how the guiding documents of the course of Letras Português, Curitiba campus, of the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Federal Technological University of Paraná) address the theme of ethnic-racial education, especially, in the case of a Letras course, how Afro-Brazilian literature is presented in the Political Pedagogical Project of the course and in the course syllabus. The results obtained indicate that Afro-Brazilian literature has not been deeply explored in the course and that its approach depends on the teachers’ personal initiatives. Based on that, we realize that there are many spaces within the course grid with the potential to offer the necessary qualification to the students, concluding that the course of Letras Português can be a space for the construction of resistance and anti-racist pedagogies.