ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN A VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Abstract

Current Brazilian Education needs transformations in the search for improvements, as it suffers from the lack of investments and the lack of preparation of professionals to mediate fundamental knowledge for the development of a fair, inclusive, collaborative and transformative society. With the development of the educational team, especially in the continuous training of educators, such needs will become a reality, as long as School Management is democratic, facilitating and encouraging, implementing the theme of ethnic and cultural diversity. The main objective of this study was to analyze how the theme of ethnic and cultural diversity has been implemented in a professional education institution in the interior of the state of São Paulo, and as specific objectives, to describe the importance of the theme of ethnic and cultural diversity in the school environment, including the methodological teaching proposals for the fulfillment of Law 11.645/08 and to investigate how the actions pertinent to the  ethnic and cultural diversity. Methodologically, this work is qualitative of the Case Study type. For data collection, interviews were conducted with managers and teachers, making a total of 18 research subjects. The interviews provided us with enough materials to realize the importance and need to work on this theme in schools, with all education professionals, so that they feel safe and able to approach the theme with tranquility, lightness and enough knowledge to demystify taboos and prejudices that permeate our society, generators of suffering and violence. Because we believe that education is capable of transforming suffering into conflict resolution, even suffering rooted for centuries, bringing peace, unity and justice with respect and enriching exchanges, especially from a people as miscegenated and culturally rich as Brazilians.