Postado em: 9 September, 2025

The SETA Project participates in the release of the National Education Plan’s Antiracist Notebook

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The document consolidates guidelines to ensure the new National Education Plan (NEP) is an instrument to combat racism.

 

The Federal District was the meeting place for the release of the NEP’s Antiracist Notebook on July 1st. The document consolidates guidelines to ensure the new National Education Plan is a genuine instrument in combating racism and promoting racial equity. The SETA Project was represented by Maria Corrêa, an Educational Coordination and Management Specialist.

“The notebook is an essential tool in the fight for a just and equitable education, which values Afro-indigenous history and culture and combats structural racism and ensures public policies based on the effective implementation of laws 10.639/03 and 11.645/08”, says Maria Corrêa.

Parliamentary members participate in the release of the NEP’s Antiracist Notebook

Congress members from the Joint Parliamentary Front on Education and the Joint Parliamentary Front on Anti-racism, representatives of organizations from the black movement and civil society, and researchers and specialists in education for ethnic-racial relations showed up for the NEP’s Antiracist Notebook’s launch.

According to Deputy Dandara Tonantzin (PT-MG), one of the project coordinators, the group’s work, which was responsible for the notebook, is to ensure that it combats racism and promotes racial equity.

“In a country with Brazil’s demographic profile and history, the National Education Plan’s formulations must be associated with the concepts of a truly anti-racist education. This is the prerequisite for the country to finally overcome its civilizing deficit, whose origin is none other than the blight of 300 years of slavery”, says the Congresswoman.

The notebook assembles guidelines so that the National Education Plan (NEP) – valid from 2024 to 2034 – can serve as the model to guide public policies in the area of education. The objective is also to contemplate an education with representativity, valuing black, quilombola, and indigenous education; to strengthen affirmative action policies, such as inclusive training for teachers; and establish public policies for racial equity with goals and a budget.

During the meeting, members of organized civil society had the opportunity to discuss the need for the actual implementation of these laws so that there is quality in education.

 

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Structural racism in Brazil has systemically hindered access to the right to equal and quality public education by black, quilombola and indigenous students. The quality of education that children receive in Brazil is deeply segmented by racial and socioeconomic status. And, today, it is identified that the gaps between white children and black, quilombola and indigenous children, in all basic education indicators, are persistent and more serious for young people aged 11 to 17. Black, quilombola and indigenous children and young people are the most likely to drop out of school, have higher exclusion rates and have lower educational levels. Therefore, they are assigned the less prestigious and lower-paying jobs as adults. Meanwhile, white students internalize the racial inequities they are exposed to in schools and replicate them as adults. When looking at learning indicators, it is also concluded that there are not only more barriers to accessing school for black, quilombola and indigenous children, but that once at school, these children are less likely to access quality education.

The SETA Project seeks to carry out transformative actions based on evidence resulting from studies that help to understand the complexity of racial relations in the country and the resulting problems that need to be faced. In this sense, it foresees a series of studies with national and regional perspectives in its territories of intervention, especially in Amazonas, Maranhão, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The objective is to map the perception of society in general, of education professionals and students about racism, racial inequalities in general and in education, the effectiveness of policies to combat racism, the gaps in tools and methodologies to promote racial equity and successful strategies and good national and international practices that can inspire actions to value diversity and differences and mitigate inequalities, especially in the area of education.

1) Biannual public mapping survey on perceptions of racism in Brazilian society.
2) Biannual focus groups on school communities’ perceptions of racism.
3) Monitoring and evaluation of educational indicators with analysis of education indicators focusing on race, gender and territory.
4) Studies led by the organizations that make up the SETA Project on “indigenous school education”, “quilombola school education”, “educational trajectory of black girls”, “black youth, education and violence”, “impact of secondary education reform on deepening of educational inequalities” and “participatory construction of indicators and diagnosis on quality in education and racial relations”.
All of these productions are/will be made publicly available to assist society in the construction of qualified narratives, based on the portrait of reality, in defense of racial equity in education, in addition to guiding project actions.

THE SETA PROJECT – EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR AN ANTI-RACIST TRANSFORMATION IS A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, SINCE 2021, WHICH BRINGS TOGETHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ACTING TOGETHER FOR AN ANTI-RACIST AND QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION.