The Ministry of Education (MEC) will prepare teachers to facilitate the reception of immigrant and refugee students in schools. To this end, today (9) it launched a training course that will provide teachers with the opportunity to get to know and deepen their knowledge regarding the insertion of these groups in the Brazilian school and multicultural environment.
The training will have a load of 80 hours, divided into two modules, with practical and theoretical content, which will support the preparation of didactic, pedagogical and literary material to support educational practice to promote learning and the integral development of students.
The objective is to enable the contact of teachers with historical, social, political and educational aspects that permeate the issue of refugees, making use of didactics that help in the reception of students. Access to classes will be through the platform Virtual Learning Environment of the Ministry of Education (Avamec).
multiculturalism
According to the ministry, the training is in line with the context of the Operation Welcomea task force created in March 2018 to receive Venezuelan immigrants and refugees arriving in Brazil.
According to MEC’s Secretary of Basic Education, Mauro Rabelo, the initiative will help schools, managers and teachers “in the task of working on multiculturalism, which is not easy”, he said, when describing some situations he witnessed during the trip to the region of fronts. of Operation Welcome.
“In our visits, we saw Venezuelan indigenous communities being welcomed by Brazilian indigenous communities”, he recalled, when commenting on the “strategic dimension”, the scope and importance of this operation.
Transversality
According to the general coordinator of the General Committee for Refugees of the Ministry of Justice, Bernardo Laferté, “the migration policy is a completely transversal policy, which addresses all aspects of life, including linguistic”, he said.
“The apparatus [para esta política] it’s not just state and government agencies, but United Nations agencies and civil society, present in a very strong way to welcome and integrate, because all aspects of human life pass there”, he added. Upon entering the country, the immigrant receives a CPF, work card and vaccine, in order to be “ready to go on with life”.
“If he has a child, the child will be Brazilian, and will need to be integrated into society, even as a matter of long-term policy, since [as famílias] bring knowledge that Brazilians do not have. That’s very rich. So we can’t see how cost. Even because they will be added to our productive market”, she pointed out.
According to the director of Teacher Training and Valuing Education Professionals, Renato Brito, there are 82.4 million refugees in the world, half of which are children. “Up to 68% of refugee children access the primary education system, but this number drops to 34% when we talk about the secondary system”, said the director.
barriers
“Currently, there are more than 57 thousand people in Brazil recognized as refugees. Unfortunately, refugee children are 53% less likely to be in school compared to Brazilian children. The difficulty in accessing the school system is due to factors such as bureaucratic, social, cultural and especially linguistic barriers.” According to the director, it is in this context that training, aimed at welcoming immigrants, is inserted.
The Training for the Reception of Immigrants and Refugees is, according to the MEC, in line with the Common National Base for the Continuing Training of Teachers of Basic Education (BNC – Continuing Training).
