When Correspondence Becomes A Pathway for the Continuing Education of Teachers in Ethnic-Racial Relations Education

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https://doi.org/10.35819/tear.v15.n1.a8213

Abstract

This letter/article aims to reflect on and identify the contributions of a continuing teacher education process, mediated by pedagogical letters, to addressing the processes of exclusion/dropout among Black students in the final years of elementary education. It is an excerpt from a doctoral research study carried out with teachers from the final years of elementary education in the municipal school system of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Through narrative and (auto)biographical action-research-training, using pedagogical letters as a device for research, education, and reflection, the study sought to understand how formative processes grounded in teaching experience and organized through writing can expand critical awareness of ethnic-racial relations within schools. The results demonstrate that experiencing the training cycle through shared writing promotes spaces for listening, the reconstruction of knowledge, and the strengthening of ethnic-racial relations education in everyday school life. As final considerations of an ongoing study, we present indications that writing, in this context, means remaining committed to public education, to the Black adolescents who build their trajectories within it, and to the belief that continuing education, when experienced as a collective and critical practice, can contribute to confronting processes of exclusion that still insist on repeating themselves.

Keywords: Continuing teacher education process. Pedagogical letters. Education on ethnic-racial relations. 

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Author Biographies

  • ROOSVANY ROCHA, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

    Mestra em Educação (2017) e Doutoranda em Educação (2023), pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Pedagoga Analista na Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Governador Valadares/MG.  Pesquisadora dos grupos de pesquisa: Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Educação, Saúde e Direitos - UNIVALE (2021) e Formação de Professores e Relações Étnico Raciais e Alteridade - UFOP (2023).

  • Erisvaldo Santos, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

    Professor Titular da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Pós-doutorado na Faculdade de Filosofia e Teologia dos Jesuítas - FAJE. Doutor e mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2004). Atua como chefe do Departamento de Estudos Africanos, Afro-Brasileiros e Indígenas da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto na área de Relações Étnico Raciais e História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira. 

Published

2026-07-13

How to Cite

When Correspondence Becomes A Pathway for the Continuing Education of Teachers in Ethnic-Racial Relations Education. #Tear: Journal of Education, Science and Technology, Canoas, v. 15, n. 1, 2026. DOI: 10.35819/tear.v15.n1.a8213. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/8213. Acesso em: 14 jul. 2026.