Participação comunitária na educação escolar quilombola: a Carta de Anuência no quilombo João Surá (PR)

Quilombola School Education arises from the struggle of quilombola populations for the right to a school education that corresponds to their particularities, which is understood as a school education that comes in addition to the quilombola education, already carried out in the daily life of community life. Thus, community participation in Quilombola School Education is essential for its realization. The João Surá quilombo, located in Paraná, has a Quilombola State School, in which since 2011 the Letter of Consent has been adopted as an instrument through which the community can appoint the civil servants to the school. The study here presented aims to analyze the adoption of the Letter of Consent at the aforesaid school, specially by taking the community participation in consideration. The research took place between 2018 and 2020, based on the action research methodology. The results indicate that the Letter of Consent has contributed to a process of greater community participation in school education, where the community appropriates from and signifies the instrument (i.e. the Letter of Consent), pointing out new possibilities for other communities.