ceert CEERT

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Educational Program: the final objective of this program is to develop methodological proposals for the treatment of human diversity and cultural plurality in regular schools, particularly subsidizing the public teaching network. The aim is to adopt the theme as permanent content of the school curricula and activities. In recent years CEERT has produced articles, materials and pedagogical texts, besides preparing and developing programs for qualification on racial/ethnical relations in different institutions.
Among the actions developed, we point out the following:

• “Racial Interaction in the School Environment” a project with the support of Levi Strauss, in 1998, that had a predominantly institutional characteristic, since the work involved, from the beginning, four Teaching Offices and, subsequently, Pedagogical Coordinators and Supervisors (approximately 80 people) linked to these offices, from the city of São Paulo. Within the schools, the workshops began with the executive and technical body (director, vice-director, pedagogical coordinators) to subsequently reach the teachers and, through these, the students. This methodological system was selected as a way to involve the staff, introducing the theme of racial relations in the political pedagogical project, thus preventing the teacher form remaining isolated in his work;

• Publication of the paradidactic book “Citizenship in Black and White” published by Ática, which in 3 years is in its 4th edition and was added to the list of recommended books for public high schools of São Paulo, besides being part of the Afro-Brazilian bibliography available in the reading rooms of the municipal schools of São Paulo;

• Publication of the book “Racial Discrimination in Schools – between the Law and Practice”, first study on educational rights and racial relations in Brazil;

• Introduction of the national Award “Educate for Racial Equality: experiences of promotion of racial/ethnical equality in the school environment”, that, in association and support from different institutions of the public and private sectors, governmental and non-governmental, collected, in its first edition (2002), 210 experiences of educators from the 5 regions of the country, in the categories of children’s education and elementary teaching. The experiences were analyzed by specialists from different areas of knowledge, including racial relations, producing a rich material as parameters for production of good educational experiences to promote equality. At this moment the 5th edition of the award is under way.

With the strengthening of the advice to public agencies and educational secretariats, the future of this program points out the training of educators for the treatment of the subject of human diversity in the classroom; research production on racial diversity in the curricula, in the school relations and in the administration of education; production of didactic and paradidactic materials on human diversity and racial equality; administration of the award “Educate for Racial Equality – experiences of promotion of racial/ethnical equality in the school environment;