Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva

Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva is a full professor, and now professor emerita, in Education and Racial-Ethnic Relations at the Center of Education and Human Sciences at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. Through a selection process within the Brazilian Black Movement, Professor e Silva was appointed to the National Council of Education from 2002 to 2006. During this time she played a central role in writing The National Curriculum Guidelines for the Education of Racial-Ethnic Relations and The Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture, which has since been implemented at all educational levels in Brazil. Professor e Silva’s many contributions to education were recognized in 2011 when she received Brazil’s Presidential National Order of Merit. Professor e Silva began her academic career in 1979 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul where completed a master’s degree in Education and then went on to complete a doctorate in the Human Sciences and Education in 1987. During her graduate studies, she attended UNESCO’s International Educational Planning Institute in Paris, France. Professor e Silva’s scholarship, that includes publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, addresses themes related to African and Afro-Brazilian culture and history, the contributions of the Black Movement to the Brazilian educational system, as well as educational policy and ethnic-racial relationships. Some of her most recent publications include Araujo, S. S. O., & Silva, P. B. G. e. (2009). The Education of ethnic minority groups in Mexico. In: Banks, J.A. (Editor). The Routledge international companion to multicultural education (pp. 540-551). New York: Routledge, Silva, P. B. G. e. (2011). Education on ethnic-racial relations from the perspective of Afro-descendants: Agenda for knowledge production. Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy. June, 4(1) 73-85. Retrieved from www.reid-ifed.org.

 

During winter quarter 2015, Professor Gonçalves e Silva teaches CSRE 126B: Curricular Public Policies of Recognition of African & Indigenous Populations - Brazilian Experience.