REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRODESCENDENT CHILDREN IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: AN INTERVENTION PROJECT IN FINAL GRADES OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, BASED ON THE WORK A BOTIJA DE OURO, BY JOEL RUFINO DOS SANTOS
Children's Literature – Diversity – Representation – Afrodescendant children – School environment
This Professional Master's Research in Letters (ProfLetras-Cáceres-MT) deals with the representations of Afro-descendant children in children's literature. The objectives of the investigation are: 1) to develop a study on how the school and the teaching apparatus reinforced the social exclusion of Afro-descendant children; 2) provoke, in Elementary School students, research, reading and writing actions that deal with ethnic-racial diversity, perceived in the dimension of language in everyday life, manifested in words. The research, of a qualitative nature, will be carried out in concurrent stages: at the same time that it invests in a bibliographical review on the subject of the exclusion of black children in children's books, strategies of direct intervention, through reading, writing and ludic activities related to the text, linguistic games (crosswords, word searches) and research of names of African origin, motivated by the collective study of the work A botija de ouro, by Joel Rufino dos Santos. It is intended that the intervention instigates the discovery of linguistic influences (and other influences) of languages coming from Africa on the constitution of the mother tongue. In its theoretical course, the research discusses, among other things, the strength of the dominant structure, which seeks to silence the voices that represent diversity, with emphasis on the issue of the Afro-Brazilian movement. The theoretical support of the research is based on some works that deal with black culture and its representations in literary works, such as Black characters in children's literature, by Débora Oyayomi Araújo, How racism created Brazil, by Jessé Souza, Afro-Brazilian literature, by Florentina Souza and Maria Nazaré Lima, among others mentioned in the project. As a final product, resulting from the intervention in sixth grade classrooms, it is intended to present a commented and illustrated portfolio of words of African origin, with words collected, selected and organized by sixth grade students.