Educational quotas as a decolonial process

Abstract

Social issues have been the subject of bioethical debates in recent decades, among these issues is racism, segregation that occurs in Brazilian lands and in many countries around the world since colonial times, designating an intrinsic and persistent problem, although combated through reactive actions to reduce the injustices created since colonial Brazil, exemplified in this sense the educational quotas. In this sense, the debate about educational quotas is important, since it represents the process of decoloniality, responsible for fighting the exclusion of ethnic groups that were once marginalized and without opportunities within what human rights expect for education. The method chosen to designate this study is exploratory descriptive, with a qualitative, bibliographical, and reflective approach based on the educational quotas, their opportunity and relevance, as well as the bioethical and decolonial vision that the theme produces. Moreover, it is important to bring into this theme the history of the struggle of the black ethnic group through the years to achieve the right to education, especially by looking at the future of educational quotas. This decolonial debate is of utmost importance in various areas of society, and is no different with regard to educational quotas, as one of the instruments in the constant battle for equal opportunities in the Brazilian higher education scenario.