2024-12-16 12:14:00
The 1st Congress of Afrocentric Education is an international event that will take place from 5 to 9 May 2025, at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Unilab), Malês campus in São Francisco do Conde, and at the Palace State University of Bahia (Uneb), in Salvador, and also remotely. The event is promoted by the Afrocentric Education Research Group (Grupeafro/Unilab Malês) and the Afrocentrar Health Research Group: Ilera Dudu (UNEB), in collaboration with the Laboratory of Education in Ethnic-Racial Relations (UFPE) and the Afroperspectives, Knowledge and Research on Childhood Group (UFRRJ).
The aforementioned research groups have produced research with an emphasis on discussions on teacher training, pedagogical practices, ethno-racial relations education, Afrocentric education, health education and its articulation with the education of basic and higher education. These discussions are promoted at different levels and teaching modalities, through connections with educators and researchers from different locations around the country.
The proposal of the event emerges from the maturation of researchers, educators and students, who make up these research groups, regarding the need to build connections and articulations in networks that allow the understanding of education, in its different dimensions, regarding Afro-American cultures. Americans. centered perspectives. It also continues to contribute to the consolidation of Law no. 10.639/03 and to the construction of collective actions in teaching and research based on the different ways of doing and establishing oneself as a teacher, researcher and human being.
In this context, we seek to promote articulation between basic education professionals, higher education teachers, researchers, students, activists from Brazil and other countries, Terreiro and Quilombola peoples, on the knowledge and experiences related to the different dimensions and forms of practice of Afrocentric education. in different educational spaces.
Registration
It is necessary to register for the 1st Congress on Afrocentric Education on the event website until May 5, 2025. The works must also be sent to Congress websitebetween December 16, 2024 and March 1, 2025.
Event
The event program includes short distance and in-person courses; presentation of work in thematic sessions for oral presentation; publication of the works in the conference proceedings; translation into Brazilian Sign Language (Libras); as well as simultaneous English-Portuguese translation and online broadcast of the round tables.
The Congress will be attended by teachers from the United States and South Africa, as well as researchers, professors and students from different regions of Brazil.
> For more information on the Congress, see event website and the Instagram.
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