Abstract

MARTINS, Anna Luiza Barbosa  and  ZAMORA, Maria Helena Rodrigues Navas. Whiteness and Education: A Study with Teachers of Public Schools. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 396-415. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61048.

The article is based on a survey, completed in 2018, which had studied white racial identity as perceived by teachers working in schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, selected by convenience sample. The objective was to investigate how these educators, self-declared white, perceive their own whiteness in relation to their audience at school - mostly black students, and the impact of this racial difference on their professional practice. The work considers structural racism in Brazil and consists of a dialogue between theoretical references of Critical Studies on Whiteness, Critical Social Psychology and Liberating Education, using as technique individual interviews, properly analyzed by the Content Analysis method. It was perceived both the need for white educators to see themselves as racialized, as well as the relevance of deepening discussions about race relations at school. The importance of collective actions and appropriate public policies to deal with the reverberations caused by racial inequality in the school environment was also evident.

Keywords : whiteness; education; race; public school; social psychology.

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