Ethnic-racial analysis of images in biology textbooks

The present text is the result of a qualitative research. Human images are analyzed, especially of black and indigenous people, present in Biology textbooks published before and after the implementation of the National High School Textbook Program, in 2009, and the works included in the National Tex...

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Autores: de Oliveira, Michele Assis, da Rosa, Russel Teresinha Dutra, Furtado, Tanara Forte
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)
Repositorio:Revista Dialogia (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.uninove.br:article/20389
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uninove.br/dialogia/article/view/20389
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:diversity
education
multicultural education
inclusion
textbook
diversidade
educação
ERER
Inclusão
livro didático
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Sumario:The present text is the result of a qualitative research. Human images are analyzed, especially of black and indigenous people, present in Biology textbooks published before and after the implementation of the National High School Textbook Program, in 2009, and the works included in the National Textbook Program, from 2018. Biology books uses several photographs and representations of human beings, whose sociocultural contexts matter for the maintenance or transformation of social reality. Given the predominance of the decontextualized representation of certain ethnic groups, caused by uncritical whiteness, this study aims to verify if the plural form of representation, regulated in public notices, is present in current textbooks. It is concluded that, although there has been a slight improvement in the last decade, the approach of textbooks distributed to public schools still minimizes the promotion of ethnic-racial equity.