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Education and Race Relations

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History

The Education and Race Relations group, which is responsible for discussing anti-racist education, arose from a movement of mothers at ECC, which gave rise to the Anti-Racist Collective at ECC. Following the emergence of the collective, various actions began to take place inside and outside the school on racial issues.

One of these actions was the invitation from the Board of Directors, based on a proposal put forward by the Anti-Racist Collective, for a training experience from an anti-racist perspective. The “Education and Race Relations” course, offered by Ação Educativa, provides an opportunity to learn about different aspects of Afro-Brazilian culture and its interrelations with society, with an emphasis on education.

Eight members of the school (including management, coordination, administrative and teaching staff, as well as mothers and fathers of students) took the course with the objective of mobilizing the school community about education in an anti-racist environment and promoting participatory self-evaluation, as proposed by Ação Educativa in its methodology for Quality Indicators in Education – Education and Racial Relations in Schools.

For this mobilization and application of the methodology, a Guardian Group is to be set up. This group is responsible for studying the materials, planning and stimulating the mobilization of the school community, holding meetings with the community to explain the proposal of the Indicators of Quality in Education and preparing the necessary materials, and contributing to the organization of the application of the self-evaluation.

Guardian Group

The Guardian Group is made up of members from all parts of the school: from mothers and fathers to administrative and teaching staff and students. Keeping the guardian group heterogeneous in its representation of the school is extremely important for planning the self-evaluation and engaging the school community in the other actions to be carried out.

Timeline

  • Launch of the Community Anti-Racism ProtocolAs part of efforts to combat racism and move toward an anti-racist school, work began in 2023 on developing the Community School Anti-Racism Protocol. The process involved the active participation of family representatives and professionals from the educational and administrative areas, with advice from “Ser Antirracista” (Be Anti-Racist). This group met several times for training and participatory development, and the result was the initial version of the protocol, which was presented to the school community in October.

  • Participatory Self-Assessment

    During the month of October, the second part of the Participatory Self-Assessment took place, a collective event to answer a set of questions about Education and Race Relations.

  • Book Launch: Surviving Racism

    Educator and CartaCapital magazine columnist Luana Tolentino visited the Community School for the launch of her latest book: Surviving Racism: Memories, Letters, and Everyday Discrimination in Brazil.

  • Expo Ensino

    During its participation in Expo Ensino, the Community School held a workshop that addressed racial diversity in the context of anti-racist education. Using gouache paint, participants mixed colors until the shade approximated their skin tone.

  • Training meeting with Paula Batista

    The administrative team participated in the finalization of the anti-racism training, which began on July 14. The meeting addressed the identification of manifestations of racism in the school environment and presented a variety of educational strategies for prevention and intervention.

  • Training meeting with Paula Batista

    The administrative team met to discuss the importance of building an anti-racist school. The conversation was mediated by Paula Batista, founder of the company Ser Antirracista (Be Anti-Racist), journalist, anti-racist educator, and master in scientific and cultural dissemination from Unicamp.

  • Meeting with Tainá Santos

    Online meeting with Tainá Santos, historian and project coordinator at Casa Sueli Carneiro, to learn and discuss the 20th anniversary of Law 10.639. The legislation includes the mandatory teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture in all schools.

  • Rotas Afro

    Field trip in the city of Campinas with the Rotas Afro team, exclusively serving families from the Campinas Community School. The activity involved a walk through downtown Campinas, recognizing historical sites in the city that permeate Afro history and culture, aimed at children, parents, and school professionals.

  • Anti-racism meeting with workshops for elementary and high school students

    Saturday classes for elementary and high school students with an anti-racism theme. Activities and workshops were offered to reflect on the importance of African culture and anti-racist practices.

  • Community Help Team creates anti-racism initiative

    Based on situations of conflict that arose at school, members of the Help Team created an anti-racism initiative, which consisted of a survey to find out how racism is perceived in the school environment.

  • 15th Congress for teachers and families

    “The future is now: overcoming racism in Brazil.” Lecture with Luana Tolentino, PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Education at UFMG, professor of History of Basic Education since 2008, columnist for Carta Capital magazine, and researcher at NEIA (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Otherness – UFMG).

  • Saturday school day of anti-racist education experiences

    With the aim of expanding experiences of Anti-Racist Education, children in grades 2 to 5 were at school for a morning of activities. There was African doll making, known as abayomis, African games and activities, music, storytelling, and art installations.

  • Participatory Self-Assessment

    Mothers, fathers, and staff were at school to carry out the first part of the Participatory Self-Assessment. The meeting was divided into three parts: presentation of the proposal to the school community; group discussion to answer a set of questions on different topics related to education and race relations; and a plenary session to conclude the meeting.

  • Meeting of the teaching staff with Jacqueline Damázio

    Online meeting of the teaching staff of the Campinas Community School with Jacqueline Damázio, Educator and Coordinator of the Reference Center for Human Rights in the Prevention and Combating of Racism of the Campinas City Hall.

  • Meeting of the administrative team with Jacqueline Damázio

    The administrative team met to participate in a conversation with Jacqueline Damázio, who brought up the necessary fight against structural racism. At first, she spoke of the need to understand the concept of racial equity, recognizing that we are not all equal and that we need to ensure plurality. In the second moment, Jacqueline conducted a dynamic exercise called the “walk of privileges.”

  • Meeting with Ângela Soligo

    Training meetings for the teaching team with Ângela Soligo, associate professor at the Faculty of Education at Unicamp and member of the Advisory Committee on Ethnic and Racial Diversity (CADER).

  • Council of Representatives meets with Guardian Group

    A group composed of student representatives from elementary and high school classes held a meeting with members of the Guardian Group to formalize student participation in the construction of an anti-racist education/school.

  • Live with Ângela Soligo

    Conversation about quotas and their importance in democratizing opportunities.

  • Lecture with Jacqueline Damázio

    Meeting of the elementary and high school teaching staff with Jacqueline Damázio, educator and coordinator of the Reference Center for Human Rights in the Prevention and Combating of Racism of the City of Campinas, to advance reflections and actions for an anti-racist school.

  • Help Team Discussion Group

    3rd Discussion Group of the Elementary School 2 Help Team addressing racism and other topics.

  • Anti-racism training for the teaching staff

    Anti-racism training for the teaching staff with the participation of members of the Anti-Racism Collective at the Campinas Community School.

  • Meeting with Jacqueline Damázio

    Online meeting with Jacqueline Damázio, Educator and Coordinator of the Reference Center for Human Rights in the Prevention and Combating of Racism and Religious Discrimination of the Municipality of Campinas.

  • Online meeting with Luana Tolentino

    Chat about how racism is present in attitudes and actions in our daily lives.

  • Online training meeting with the Community coordination team

    The coordination team of the Campinas Community School held an online training meeting with the participation of the Anti-Racist Collective in the Community. The central theme was reflection and planning of actions aimed at building anti-racist education and schools.

  • Online meeting with Luana Tolentino

    Chat about how racism is present in attitudes and actions in our daily lives.

  • Meeting between the Anti-Racist Collective and the teaching staff

    The meeting between the Anti-Racist Collective at the Campinas Community School and the teaching staff focused on the theme “Why talk about anti-racism in the Community School?”

  • Course on “Education and Race Relations”

    The Ação Educativa Training Center coordinated the course “Education and Race Relations,” which was attended by representatives of parents, teaching and administrative staff, and managers.

  • Video series on the theme “Anti-Racist Stance”

    During Black Awareness Month, we launched the Anti-Racist Stance series, published daily with five episodes. The videos, published in five episodes, are the result of work carried out by 9th-grade students. Drawing on reflections from their history classes, the students describe their impressions of the historical process of racial and ethnic segregation that resulted in the extermination of various peoples.