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ABOUT DOING RESEARCH

The professor. Gracyelle believes that doing research is very similar to the experience of playingvideo games. That's why he developed a gamified method to work with students under his guidance.

RESEARCH GPSANKOFA

GPSankofa works with different lines of research that seek to identify expressions of racism in our society and Afro-diasporic transgressions.

GPSankofa is registered in the CNPq Research Group Directory 

RESEARCH SUBJECTS

  1. Eugenics and racism: State, work, social policy and professional practice

  2. Social Movements and the State: Affirmative Actions and Social Policy 

  3. Teaching transgress: critical training, technologies and pedagogical strategies 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 Eugenics and racism: State, work, social policy and professional practice in the first half of the 20th century

The objective of the current research conducted by Prof. Dr. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira is to investigate the relationship between eugenics, social policy and the professional practice of social workers (and other categories) in the first half of the 20th century.

This research dialogues with the works of Dr. Costa Ferreira, such as her award-winning doctoral thesis and other publications, which can be locatedhere.  

Other projects

Currently Prof. Dr. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira is also conducting research onartificial intelligence, eugenics and racism.

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