Banca de DEFESA: ANDRESSA VIANA DE ALMEIDA

INDIGENOUS LITERATURE, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION

Indigenous Literature. Law 11,645/2008. Childhoods. Education.

The research is part of the activities of the Graduate Program in Teaching and Ethnic-Racial Relations (PPGER), at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (IHAC) of the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB) and in dialogues with the group of research “Curriculum, Difference and Teacher Training” by CNPq. The same aims to analyze the translations and interpretations of Law 11,645/2008, as well as the role and uses of indigenous children's literature in the School of Kindergarten and Elementary School Marcela Nolasco, municipality of Teixeira de Freitas, in the extreme south of Bahia, leaving from the idea that children's and youth literature by indigenous authorship, often neglected in its potential, can be a powerful ally of educators who seek to be guided by the aforementioned law, building an anti-racist education. Indigenous literature allows us to explore fundamental elements for the understanding of native peoples, undermining the adherence to the discourse that extols the exotic or picturesque character, which refers the indigenous people to the past and prevents them from being recognized in the present. Given the complexity that ethnic diversity imposes on teachers, who sometimes find themselves faced with the duty to accumulate chronologically organized and traditionally biased information, books by indigenous authorship bring the perspective of breaking down barriers of the Western epistemological conception, allowing for appreciation of interculturality in collective reflections on daily themes of different peoples, however, constituents of the foundations of our society. The methodological approach will be built from action research, using ethnography and conversation as a research methodology. To this end, the course "A tale for you: Children's Experiences and Teacher Training in Cyberculture" will be created, already covered by the notice of the Adir Blanc Law in Bahia, where we will be involving professionals from the Marcela Nolasco School, as well as others from municipal network of Teixeira de Freitas.