MINI-COURSE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES FOR THE BLACK POPULATION IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION:

UNDERSTANDING IN ORDER TO ACT

Abstract

This text aims to present the creation, implementation and reflections generated from the execution of an educational product in the form of a mini-course entitled Affirmative Action Public Policies for the Black Population in EFA: Understanding to Act. It is a continuing education course based on data collected from Administrative Technicians working in one of the units of the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais located in the interior of that state. In this context, we sought to understand, through exploratory qualitative research, the level of knowledge that Administrative Technicians from different sectors of a school in the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education had of the legislation that regulates the new school parameters of ethnic-racial relations and Affirmative Actions aimed at black people in Professional and Technological Education in order, with the data collected, to implement a short continuing education course aimed at this target audience, related to the theme in question. By detailing the process of building, implementing and evaluating the mini-course as an Educational Product and the consequent reflections dealt with in this article, this paper contributes with data and findings to show the power that exists in the proposal to stimulate, through quality continuing education, the actions and interventions of Administrative Technicians in Education at Vocational and Technological Education schools to play a leading role in the project to build a more just, democratic and inclusive Brazilian society.