Relações sociais na escola: representações de alunos negros sobre as relações que estabelecem no espaço escolar

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theme: Education and Racial Relations, having as an investigation goal the social relations that the Afro-Brazilian students establish in the school environment from their representations. For doing so, the Pierre Bourdieu reformulations (1980, 1982, 1983,1998, 1999, 2002) about the Social Relations were adopted as well as a dialogue with the theory of Roger Chartier (1991, 1994) in the discussion of the representations as responsible classifications for the organization and apprehension of the social world (CHARTIER, 1991). These bases will be read in correlation with the contemporaneous studies about the Education and the Racial Relations (CAVALLEIRO, 2000, 2001, 2005; COELHO, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009; GOMES, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006). From the relations that deal with the representations world and from the propositions of Telles (2003) – for considering schools as the most important place to research about racial discrimination – The paper also aims to develop one analysis with the focus of investigating what representations the Afro-Brazilian students have about the social relations that they establish in their school. This research occurred with 7th and 8th graders, in two elementary schools located in Ananindeua which is located in the metropolitan area of Belém. The data collected through observation, questionnaire applications, and discussion groups meetings in the investigation locus. Some content analysis techniques were adopted (BARDIN, 1977) given the possibility of data comprehension that highlight other senses that underlie the messages, so that the aim of this paper is successfully established.