Educação das relações étnico-raciais no currículo da pós-graduação em serviço social: uma aproximação dos programas de pós-graduação do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The theme of this dissertation is ethnic-racial relations education (ERER) in Brazilian postgraduate curricula and the object of study is the analysis of the curricula of postgraduate programs in Social Work in the state of São Paulo. The motivation for choosing the subject of this work, firstly, is my background as a black student on the Social Work course at the Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys (UFVJM) and my involvement in a research group on ethnic-racial relations, the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies (NEAB) and the master's program at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) at the Observatory of Raciality and Intersectionality (ORI-CNPq). Secondly, because I agree with the notion that postgraduate studies are a privileged locus for the production of knowledge and a reference space for the training of researchers and new teachers. The research carried out understands ERER as a concept that runs through professional training, from the conception of the programs, their syllabuses and curricular components, research, extension activities and study groups. To this end, the general objective of this study was to analyze ERER in the curriculum of postgraduate courses in Social Work in the state of São Paulo, and the specific objectives were: a) to discuss Brazilian socio-historical formation and ethnic-racial relations in Brazil; b) survey the curricular components, syllabi, whether mandatory or optional, in the postgraduate programs in Social Work to identify the content and its relationship with the ERER debate and; c) identify the theoretical production materialized in the theses and dissertations produced in the selected programs on the ethnic-racial debate in the last 10 years between 2010 and 2020. The research, of a qualitative nature, was carried out based on a bibliographic and documentary survey, considering as a corpus of analysis the lines of research, curricular components and syllabi of the postgraduate courses in Social Work in the state of São Paulo at PUC-SP, UNESP campus Franca and UNIFESP. The analysis of the data collected was based on the technique proposed by Roque de Moraes called discursive textual analysis. As a result, the research revealed that interest in the debate on the ethnic-racial issue in the production of knowledge in Social Work has progressively become an interest of Social Work researchers. However, scientific production on the ethnic-racial issue must be implemented in a central and transversal way in the curriculum and curriculum components of the Social Work postgraduate courses surveyed.