Bonecas negras nas brinquedotecas dos centros municipais de educação infantil de Cuiabá – MT : implicações para o estudo das relações raciais

Abstract

This dissertation is about the education ethnic-racial relations and pedagogical resources in the Childhood Education, whose object is the black doll in the playroom of the municipal centers of childhood education in Cuiabá-MT. It results, therefore, from a study in the field of ethnic-racial relations, focusing on Childhood Education. It was guided by the attempt to analyze the presence/absence of black dolls in the space of the playroom of the Municipal Centers of Child Education of Cuiabá-MT (CMEIs)from the assumption that play plays an important role in the development and socialization of children. It is deemed that the doll is one of the oldest toys and that makes up the universe of toys available to children, having an important role in the construction of their social imaginary. In this perspective, it is considered that the use of black dolls in the educational process can potentiate the

overcoming of racial prejudices and, therefore, the strengthening of the identity and self- image of black children. The theoretical support for the development of the study about racial

relations was given by (NOGUEIRA, 1988; MUNANGA, 2004; CAVALLEIRO, 2003), childhood education (KUHLMANN JR, 2018) and play (KISHIMOTO, 2003; BROUGERE, 2010). From the methodological point on view this study was referenced in the qualitative approach, characterizing as an exploratory research, based on Gil (2002) and Godoy (1995). The field research was conducted in the period from October to December 2018. The instruments used to collect data were: questionnaire, photographic records, observations and field notebook. The data were organized observing the following aspects: structure of IDCD, playroom, play spaces, presence/absence of black dolls in the toys of five Municipal Centers of Child Education of Cuiabá-MT. The results of this research show that CMEIs in Cuiabá do not present the doll toy in a satisfactory quantitative way, as for the representativeness of the attended children. Which denotes that the presence of black dolls in the context of Child Education, in Cuiabá, is really an important subject to be discussed and (re)thought.