O currículo científico com o povo indígena Tupinikin: a tomada de consciência dos instrumentos socioculturais

Abstract

This research was developed in 2003 in order to analyze the contributions of the sociocultural instruments for the inclusion of the Tupinikim cultural identity in the curricular proposal for Natural Sciences of the first cycle of the primary education at the Pau Brasil village school of the Tupinikim ethnic group.

This research came out as a response to a commitment previously acquired with the INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E EDUCAÇÃO IPE (Institute of Research and Education IRE) in the sense of being a contribution to the process of recreating the Natural Sciences curriculum of the Indigenous Education, making it a differentiated, specific, intercultural and bilingual one, with and for the Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous populations of the municipality of Aracruz State of Espírito Santo.

This work, which is the result of a qualitative analysis based on both a visual research methodology and the sociointeractionism, selects, observes and analyzes videotapes and documents of the teaching-learning process of the above mentioned school. Its results indicate that the 2003 curricular proposal for the teaching of Natural Sciences was, at the same time, an attempt to recreate the Tupinikim cultural identity as well as a clear limitation to it.

It also sates that the teaching process led by this proposal was centered on the perspective contents, both scientific as well as from the Tupinikim culture. In that context, this research concludes that the sociocultural awareness process has not yet become a reality among the students, as far as the Natural Sciences is concerned