COLONIALITY AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:
THE RACIAL ISSUE IN EJA TEXTBOOKS
Abstract
The central theme of this original article is ethnic-racial relations present in textbooks for “Educação de Jovens e Adultos” Youth and Adult Education (EJA). The overall aim is to examine how such issues are dealt with in a textbook for the Early Years of Elementary School at a municipal school in Machado/MG. Predominantly qualitative in nature, the research which this article is resulted from used documentary research as its main information-gathering technique, using both Aníbal Quijano's studies on colonialities of knowledge and power and Silvana Souza Ramos's studies on political correctness as theoretical references. Through the main results, it was possible to indentify that the didactic material analyzed in the research is partially free of stereotyped or prejudiced texts and images in relation to black people. In addition, the presence of political correctness ends up revealing the presence of coloniality in the material.
Keywords: Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA); Ethnic-racial relation; Didatic Material; Coloniality; Political Correctness.
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Declaro que o presente artigo é original, não tendo sido submetido à publicação em qualquer outro periódico nacional ou internacional, quer seja em parte ou em sua totalidade. Declaro, ainda, que uma vez publicado na revista EJA em debate, editada pelo Instituto Federal de santa Catarina, tal texto jamais será submetido por mim ou por qualquer um dos demais coautores a qualquer outro periódico. Através deste instrumento, em meu nome e em nome dos demais coautores, porventura existentes, cedo os direitos autorais do referido artigo ao Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina e declaro estar ciente de que a não observância deste compromisso submeterá o infrator a sanções e penas previstas na Lei de Proteção de Direitos Autorias (Nº9609, de 19/02/98).
