MASTER IN
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

The Postgraduate Programs in Human Development and the Professional Program in Education held a new “Journey for Equity and Inclusion of Difference” event. The journeys began in May 2023, at an event in which the IdentidadeS Project was presented, requested by Public Prosecutor José Carlos de Oliveira Sampaio and prepared by Profa. Mirian Garrido, of the Master's Program in Human Development.

The Journey event held on the day 9 April 2024 not hybrid format, with a face-to-face dimension in the UNITAU Auditorium and broadcast simultaneously on TV UNITAU. The theme of this edition was studies and teaching materials on Africanity and Afro-Brazilians

As a speaker, Prof., prof. Drag. Monica Franchi Carniello. Then, the Student Dean, prof. Drag. Alexandra Magna Rodrigues, which presented the Special Commission on ethnic-racial relations, which was finalized and delivered a report proposing the creation of a permanent committee at UNITAU.

prof. Mírian Cristina de Moura Garrido presented the results of the IdentidadeS Project, which is already a year old. The students of the undergraduate History course at UNITAU, guided by her in Scientific Initiation with a CNPq and UNITAU scholarship, presented the results of their research so far and the projection of continuity. Among the achievements, articles already published in journals of different classifications stand out., including all A ratings. Isabella Cristine César dos Santos, who researched the African kingdom of Dahomey in his Scientific Initiation in 2023 with funding from CPNq and developed a didactic game based on this research, was awarded first place in the PIBIC Scientific Initiation category at the International Science Congress, Technology and Development, promoted by UNITAU in 2023. Anna Romancene Dias da Silva, also an academic on the History Course, in your Scientific Initiation, with scholarship from UNITAU, studied propositions for anti-racist education: Afro-Brazilian history and developed a didactic game focusing on black feminism.

Larissa de Oliveira Casemiro da Rocha, Master's student of the Master's Program in Human Development with guidance from Profa. Mírian Garrido and co-supervision of Profa. Rachel Duarte Abdala, He is a Capes Fellow and develops a survey of research on enslaved people in the Paraíba Valley, focusing on the experiences of intellectuals who dedicated themselves to studying this topic..

After the presentations, the event program continued with a lecture by Prof.. Drag. Fábia Barbosa Ribeiro, from UNIFESP, who presented for the first time his doctoral research on slavery in Taubaté in the city. The theme of the research was the Brotherhoods of black men. prof. Fábia Ribeiro is one of the intellectuals interviewed by master's student Larissa Rocha in her research.

The event was broadcast on the UNITAU TV Channel and the recording can be viewed below: