PUBLIC POLICIES AND ETHNIC-RACIAL EDUCATION IN THE SERTÃO DA BAHIA

Abstract

Educational policies of an ethnic-racial nature date back to the last decades of the 20th century with the opening of the democratic process in Brazil. Investigations carried out in various geographical spaces by different researchers point to the need to guarantee the execution of what is provided for in educational legislation. In this sense, the present article is the result of research carried out in the Quilombola Communities of the Municipality of Caetité/BA, with the objective of knowing how the conquests of the black movement, in the legal plane, are effective in the real plane with regard to Public Educational Policies. This article is exploratory in nature, with a qualitative research approach, based on bibliographic and documentary study, using field research and personal interview through a semi-structured questionnaire. The result of the research found the existence of several public policies aimed at the black population, the result of the struggles of the Black Movement, the divergence between the view of teachers and the perception of students in relation to the contents worked demonstrates a non-conformity in not being able to relate the contents to its cultural and social identity, as well as the high rate of distortion and the absence of discussions on the theme that contribute to the fact that the educational policies legally guaranteed in the educational system are not implemented satisfactorily.