Mulheres negras nas Ciências: discussões sobre gênero, currículo e (in)visibilidade

Abstract

The curriculum must respond to the transformations of society so that through it educational practices that make people traditionally invisible pass through the school. The perception that the school has reproduced practices that exclude gender and race in its educational processes, leads us to question the guiding document of the curriculum in the sphere of Basic Education, as well as the training of teachers in the area of Natural Sciences, Physics and Chemistry. In view of this, this study was organized in order to answer the following concerns: i) does the BNCC serve as guidance, direction for whom? Which curricula will be designed from a base that neglects gender? ii) How are racial relations present in the curricular roots? Are we preparing teachers so that in Chemistry classes they can discuss the fight against racism or maintain racist and exclusionary practices? iii) How do the processes of enslavement leave marks that (in)disable black women in science? How do teacher training curricula operate to (in)visibilize black women as epistemologists of Science? To answer these questions, we established the objective of “investigating how gender and race relations are organized in the educational context through the BNCC and the curricula for the training of Physics and Chemistry teachers at the UFRB”. The results are presented in this thesis, organized in multipaper format, divided into three studies: i) how gender discussions are intertwined with the National Common Curricular Base, a guiding document for the elaboration of curricula in the sphere of Basic Education; ii) we propose to think of Anti-Racist Education as a possibility to eliminate the racist culture in the Brazilian territory, for this we focus on understanding racism as a structural problem of our society, on how the school contributes to the maintenance of racist practices; iii) we seek to dialogue about the place of the black woman-scientist in the training curricula for teachers of Natural Sciences (Degree in Physics and Chemistry) at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia.