O índio como o outro. O desafio de construir uma identidade positiva a partir dos livros didáticos.

Abstract

This research investigates in which aspect public policy education presents the concept possibility to constitute a pluralistic society, based on the teaching and learning process principle and the challenge that implements the constitution of a multiethnic nation. Prior investigation in textbooks and teacher's manuals approved for National the Textbook Program [PNLD-2007] in the disciplines of History and Geography. Furthermore, it analyses how teacher may respond to the teaching and learning challenge facing cultural diversity. Teachers analyses demonstrates the identity lack of reflection, therefore, teachers face difficulties to raise discussions on this theme within school. It is said that there is an investment increase in educational public policies, and several documents developed with education empowerment by the Federal Government through the Education Ministry [MEC], which lately it provides new dimensions concerning basic education. This research focuses on the indigenous issues recovering in a non-Indian school of a border area. Its distinguishing feature has the purpose to examine elementary school grades from 1st to 5th periods, located on indigenous edges in Potiguara-PB, constructing indigenous identity essentially on textbooks giving no emphasis on Potiguara. Thus, twenty-five collections from various publishers as the main source concerning History and Geography approved in 2007 PNLD [National Textbook Program], among these collections from the two disciplines adopted by the school. It purposes to reflect how indigenous issues are presented in the textbooks distributed in public schools, regarding both written and image texts. Research within books that circulate in schools, school planning and planning activities contemplation, student tasks and teachers interviews results in this dissertation. This study also provokes the search in order to accept ethnic differences, well as students and educators difficulties. Especially Northeast indigenous ethnic groups, on the other side, quite distant from teaching works and school environment, even participating in the history and geography context.