Educação infantil e desigualdades raciais: tessituras para a construção de uma educação das/nas relações étnico-raciais desde a creche

Abstract

The article sought to highlight a current rapidly growing field in education, the discussion of how the practices in child education have addressed the racial inequalities in the last two decades in Brazil. To do so, the article opens up a dialogue with the academic production and questions the colonizing pedagogies captured in some researches, defending the decolonization and claiming the rights of both black and white children to an antiracist education that would occur since the very first stage of basic education taking into account their specificities. We start from the assumption that this theoretical and methodological construction sets its basis on the general principles of combat against racism constituted by the Brazilian Black Movement [Movimento Negro Brasileiro in the original Portuguese], but it anchors itself to the singularity of the work with young children and tiny young children and, in this sense, we present some Afrocentric presumptions as possibilities to build new practices which respect children in their entirety.