Representações sociais acerca das culturas africana e afro-brasileira na educação em Biblioteconomia no Brasil

Abstract

This research aims to understand the social representations about African and Afro-Brazilian cultures in the Education in Library and Information Science in Brazil from normative instruments (pedagogical political project, syllabus, program and bibliography of the disciplines) and speeches of teachers belonging to federal and state educational institutions that offer the courses of Library Science. As a theoretical reference, it presents the American Black Librarianship and the potential for the construction of a Brazilian Black Librarianship. This research contextualizes and discusses the racial issue in Brazilian society and addresses the elements that unite Brazil and Africa, as well as their historical, socio-cultural and educational aspects of populations of African origin. The theoretical-methodological frame of reference is based on the Sociology of knowledge and on social-constructivism, which have as a methodological support the theory of social representations. It is an applied and exploratory research of phenomenological nature, whose procedure of collection and analysis of the discourses is based on the technique of the Discourse of the Collective Subject. In addition to the interview, a questionnaire to characterize the profile of teachers for data collection was used. The results related to the documentary corpus demonstrated the presence of 16 disciplines with approaches related to African and Afro-Brazilian cultures, with only eight specific disciplines, of which 12 are elective disciplines and four are compulsory disciplines. Regarding teacher perceptions, from the analysis of the Discourse of the Collective Subject, the results brought five points of discussion, namely: the complexity and diversity of the social challenges of the current librarian training; the formation of the librarian and the incipient relationship with African and Afro-Brazilian cultures; the unfamiliarity on actions that insert these cultures in courses of Library Science; the indication of bibliographic sources, authors, disciplines or projects on African and Afro-Brazilian cultures and the development of the Brazilian Black Librarianship and the (awareness of) whiteness present in the teaching discourses.