Challenges and possibilities in the guarantee process of the specific school curriculum in indigenous schools/Desafios e possibilidades no processo de garantia do currículo escolar específico em escolas indígenas

The importance of maintaining cultural identity today makes indigenous peoples disconnect from so many impositions suffered since the invasion and genocide in Brazil. Strengthening the struggles for achievement and independence in the construction of a specific curriculum that will define the iden...

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Main Authors: Lucidayne de Souza Ferreira, Sara Jane Cerqueira Bezerra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Alagoas 2020-01-01
Series:Diversitas Journal
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ifal.edu.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/964
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Summary:The importance of maintaining cultural identity today makes indigenous peoples disconnect from so many impositions suffered since the invasion and genocide in Brazil. Strengthening the struggles for achievement and independence in the construction of a specific curriculum that will define the identity of the school community, based on the predominant intercultural aspects. In this context, it is evident that, with the suggestion of education in western cradle, we know the great importance of its role in the formation of the citizen and the construction of ideologies that move and guarantee improvements for humanity. The way in which educational policies assist the traditional peoples and their differentiated education, which are constantly being claimed, aiming at opportunities and improvements in the quality of education for indigenous citizen formation, worthy of recognition for their ancestral origins. This research aimed to analyze the right to have a different curriculum in Indigenous School Education, was carried out between June 2016 and August 2017. During the research, were Several studies and discussions were conducted on indigenous school education, curriculum and the challenge of finding a specific curriculum, addressing the difficulties and anxieties that indigenous school education in Alagoas has been facing for years. The theoretical contribution used to reflect on the theme in question was based on: Alagoas (2015); Brazil (1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2014); Bergamaschi (2012); Eyng (2010); Grupioni (2006); Lopes (2008); Malta (2013); Munari (2010) and Vilar (2017). The research brings as evidence the need to guarantee a specific school curriculum for indigenous schools, aiming to contribute to the offer of a contextualized intercultural school education, promoting a curriculum conducive to local culture. In this sense, it aimed to provide the Indians, their communities and peoples with the recovery of their historical memories and the reaffirmation of their ethnic identities and the valorization of their languages and sciences. This school needs to develop a collective work to build a specific curriculum that aims to improve teaching-learning, enabling educators and learners a creative, humanized, transformative, supportive and cultural coexistence integrated with the context in which they are inserted, without disrespecting the indigenous beliefs and cultural practices.
ISSN:2525-5215