CHALLENGES FOR PERMANENCE AND SUCCESS OF BLACK AND INDIGENOUS STUDENTS AT IFBA CAMPUS EUNÁPOLIS-BA
Education of Blacks and Indians. Institutional Racism. Coloniality and Decoloniality of Knowledge. Meaningful and Ethnomathematics Learning.
This Action Research involves scientific research articulated with practice in the study environment and its main objective is to highlight and reflect on the conditions of permanence and success of black and indigenous students at the Institute; in addition to proposing actions that enable meaningful learning that considers Afro-Brazilian and indigenous contributions to education. This work contemplated a quantitative and qualitative character, whose procedures used included the theoretical foundation; institutional documentary research; search, systematization and data analysis; investigation of scientific works related to the object of Action Research; participant observation; interviews; on-site practice and discussion of results. Among the complexity of the resulting variables, difficulties in students' learning in some areas of knowledge were observed, mainly in the exact sciences, as the main reason that led students to fail and, consequently, to evade. Among these areas, Mathematics was the most pointed out by the students. It was also found that black and indigenous students make up the largest portions of these phenomena. As a result, Action Research led the discussion from the decolonial perspective and proposed the implementation of the Project “Ethnic-Racial Knowledge: other perspectives on Mathematical Science”, based on Etnomathematics, as an epistemological and methodological possibility for learning more meaningful and productive. This Project was developed with students from the first years of integrated courses, as it is the period in which failure and dropout are most accentuated.