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The Ministry of Education (MEC), in partnership with the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), launched the course and e-book Education of Youth and Adults and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations in a videoconference held on Thursday, October 9th. The objective is to support education professionals from public schools in building curricula that promote increased education and professional qualifications for young people, adults and the elderly. The initiatives seek to overcome racism, reduce inequalities and promote diversity, ensuring the right to quality education for all historically excluded audiences.
The launch articulates two priority MEC agendas led by the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Youth and Adult Literacy, Diversity and Inclusion (Secadi): o and The initiative is part of the pacts National Training Program for Teaching at EJA (ProfEJA).
The director of Literacy and Youth and Adult Education Policies at Secadi, Ana Lucia Sanches, stated that the course and program are dedicated to analyzing all the subjectivity necessary for the pedagogical methodologies that are considered in fact EJA [youth and adult education].
Sanches also reported that, according to the 2022 Census, black illiterate people in the country represent more than 10% of the Brazilian population, brown people 8% and the quilombola population reaches almost 20%. For her, the numbers highlight the traces of exploitation and enslavement, materialized in socio-educational inequalities.
When we look at the education of young people and adults from the 2024 School Census, almost 75% of students are black and brown. It is a public that, in fact, represents structural racism. Therefore, policies to strengthen and quality education for young people and adults necessarily reflect an agenda focused on an anti-racist policy, focused on ethnic-racial reflections, he considered.
Also participating in the launch videoconference were: the vice-rector of UFSCar, Maria de Jesus Dutra dos Reis; and the course coordinator, Tatiane Cosentino Rodrigues.
On that occasion, the inaugural class Education of Youth and Adults and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations: challenges and paths took place, with professors Dayse Moura, from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), and Ayodele Floriano Silva from UFSCar. The debate was mediated by UFSCar professor and researcher, Maria Caroline de Souza.
Course - The course is available, free of charge, on Ja o brings together the course content, including proposals for teaching activities that articulate themes from ethnic-racial relations to different areas of knowledge.
ProfEJA - The course Education of Youth and Adults and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations is the second course in the series of 15 self-instructional training courses that make up the program.
The actions are developed in partnership with universities and federal institutes from all regions of the country, which address topics such as literacy for young people and adults, youth, integrated curriculum, pedagogical practices and inclusion.
The potential audience includes 60,000 popular educators from the Literate Brazil Program (PBA), EJA teachers from public schools, 53 pedagogical coordinators, 650 coordinators, 1,300 trainers from the National Pact, in addition to around 900,000 PBA students, in 2,786 municipalities with the highest illiteracy rates in the country.
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from Secadi
