Reflexões a partir da política educacional do colégio AIACOM e suas relações com as questões étnico-raciais

Abstract

The present dissertation deals with an educational policy characterized by some specificities, organized by a Catholic religious school, which offers free education to children and adolescents mostly black and residents of peripheral communities located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, who live in socially and economically vulnerable conditions. The main objective was to identify and analyze the educational policy of the Colegio Agustiniano AIACOM and how ethnic-racial relations education is dealt with by the institution. For this, the official documents of the college and the classes attended in a virtual way were analyzed, hence we adopted the online ethnography to follow the classes through the Facebook of the school unit, because during the research period, we were immersed in the covid-19 pandemic, which demanded social isolation. In addition to this analysis, we relied on a semi-structured interview with a professional member of the school's management. The research revealed that a religiously oriented school, even though it maintains its Catholic and Augustinian philosophy, can obtain and practice policies and pedagogical projects that dialogue with an education available for the dialogue with diverse cultures, with the education of ethnic-racial relations, with anti-racism, inserted in the school daily life and not in specific dates and periods.