The search for (anti-racist) education in human rights.
When we assume education from the perspective of human rights, we challenge ourselves to recognize that, in terms of legislation, there are important contributions that enable us to reference the subject and, in some way, we take on central categories in the face of demands placed on us by contemporary society. In other words, we speak of the right to learn and share with groups, communities, movements, and social experiences, which represents a commitment to the diversity of knowledge, cultures, ethnicities, ideological and political options.
Brazilian society has only recently and excludingly recognized the right to education. At the time when the 1934 Constitution gained meaning, public education with mandatory attendance was mandated under the duty of the state. The central issue was always about the public that had access to this education. During the military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985, school education remained in the regulatory field, and the appropriation of the school was still maintained from the beginning: white people, and mostly men. On the other hand, there was also the activation of the absence of the right with the increase of the illiterate population that experienced this intense crisis until the 1980s.
As the discussion advances, we talk about policies that have been structured with a view to the debate on redemocratization - validated by the expansion of access to basic education and the guarantee of schooling for Brazilians. It is important to highlight that the universalization of education had, in its conquest process, the participation and pressure of various groups. This is not without being an organized way of promoting collective actions.
In this field, we remain in the movement of the universalization of education, portraying the field of human rights in a discursively committed way by the Brazilian State, based on Article 205 of the Federal Constitution of 1988. These rights were subsequently sealed by Law No. 9,394/96, Law No. 10,639/2003, Law No. 13,005/2014, on the National Education Plan, and normative documents that contribute to more active proposals such as the Curricular Guidelines and the Common National Curricular Base.
By recognizing that education, in its premise, is a right of all people, we will then have the challenge of promoting its diversity and the multiple aspects that articulate the political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions in which human dignity is the starting point. Thus, it is important to point out that the right to education in contemporary times recognizes the increase of black people in the school environment, but the reflections that constitute racial inequalities in education and the visibility of the black population as subjects of rights, although there is legal support, seem to be little mobilized in the face of the relationships established in schools.
We seek to embrace an education that legitimizes the conditions of students and, in this case, black students. An education that allows questioning the inequalities that affect them, produces mobilizing meanings, strengthens interventions, and relates to positive realities. The logic of learning cannot be restricted to fixed content; it goes through the life and existence of plural beings.
It is likely that this recognition may be linked to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Article 26, which deals with education. It establishes the importance of an educational process that contributes to the expansion of the human personality and respect for diversity. It is also likely that this development has been anchored in Law No. 10,639/03, which makes it mandatory to teach about Afro-Brazilian History and Culture. Although the issue has not been fully implemented, and even though we celebrate its existence, education is still a way to assert learning rights. Not only to assert rights but also to recognize one's own experience - of the community and the world with love and care. The educational act is revolutionary. The anti-racist educational
-By UNIperiferias/ Instituto Maria João Aleixo
https://www.institutounibanco.org.br/conteudo/a-busca-pela-educacao-antirracista-em-direitos-humanos/
