Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANTONIO JORGE DE CASTRO

Teaching African literature in Portuguese at school: breaking silences and building new practices in the classroom

Portuguese-language African literatures; School; Law 10.639/03

This research is being developed in the context of the Professional master’s degree in literature - PROFLETRAS/UFOPA. It aims to problematize the teaching of Portuguese-language African literature in the final years of Elementary School, more precisely in 9th grade classes. The locus of the research is a state school, located in a peripheral neighborhood in the North Zone of the city of Macapá, state of Amapá, in the Amazon region. The research dialogues with law 10,639/03, Law 1,196 and the National Curricular Guidelines for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations and for the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture and with authors such as Amador de Deus (2020), Amâncio (2008), Margarido (1980), Chaves (1996). The main objective of the research is to investigate whether/and how the teaching of African literature in the Portuguese language is developed in the 9th year of Elementary School at school, as well as presenting a pedagogical proposal for inclusion. In order to achieve this objective, the bibliographical, documentary and field investigation approach is being used, part of which, previously speaking, has already been developed through a diagnosis, in which questionnaires involving management, pedagogical coordination and teachers were applied. However, there will still be a second stage, the diagnostic procedure, which will be carried out with students in a 9th year class at the school. After this stage will come the last research procedure, which will be carrying out an intervention process in which texts from Mozambican literature will be used, a set of ten short stories, called short stories from Mozambique, they were written from the oral collective memory of the Mozambican people ; Bibliographical and documentary research and part of the diagnostic investigation point to the following results: the black population's incessant struggle for their rights; inexpressiveness in continuing teacher training; presence of skills that emphasize Afro-Brazilian literary manifestations; African literature as a means of implementing Law 10639/03.