Quilombola school education: teaching mathematics as a tool for human rights education. Lessons from the Kalunga community of Vão do Moleque (Maiadinha), Goiás
Quilombola School Education; Teaching Mathematics; Human Rights; Public Budget; Teaching Sequence
Through my work as a trainee at the Institute for Socio-Economic Studies (INESC), I came to understand that understanding more about budgets can be a powerful tool for understanding and defending human rights. I therefore chose to incorporate this dimension into my research into mathematics teaching. My dissertation, "Quilombola school education: a study of mathematics teaching in the Kalunga community of Vão do Moleque (Maiadinha) as a tool for human rights education", aims to evaluate the moments in which access to knowledge about human rights becomes possible through the teaching of the public budget in secondary school classrooms. To do this, it was necessary to search for references and draw up a synthesis on the relationship between budgets and human rights, and to construct a didactic sequence based on the school budget suitable for a first grade high school class. The research activities included the application of this didactic sequence to first-year high school students at the Kalunga I State School (headquarters) in the municipality of Cavalcante-GO. From this perspective, I carried out research based on the concept of action research proposed by Michel Thiollent, which involves carrying out research aimed at solving collective problems and developing concrete actions to promote changes in the reality being investigated. The theorists who provided the basis for the research contributed to an understanding of education and mathematics education, human rights, public budgeting and teaching methodologies, helping in the development of the proposed didactic sequence. I found that, despite the modern infrastructure of the Kalunga I State School (headquarters), there are challenges such as the lack of resources in the library. Based on the application and critical analysis of the Didactic Sequence (DS), we can see the students' engagement and the connection with themes such as budgeting and citizenship, which imposes the realization that there is a need for improvement in order to guarantee educational quality.