Educação UFSM
On-line version ISSN 1984-6444
Abstract
TASSINARI, Antonella Maria Imperatriz and GOBBI, Izabel. Políticas públicas e educação para indígenas e sobre indígenas. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2009, vol.34, n.01, pp.95-112. ISSN 1984-6444.
In Brazil the education system underwent broad reformulation as a result of the promulgation of the National Constitution in 1988 and the subsequent approval, in 1996, of the new Law of National Education Directives and Bases. Brazilian laws regognize indigenous knowledge and propose their inclusion in public schools curricula. They also recognize that indigenous people have their own teaching and learning process which each school needs to take into account and propose the formulation of diferenciated curricula. This presentation will attempt to assess the consequences and challenges brought about by these changes, with respect to the treatment of indigenous knowledges in the regular schools as well as in the indigenous schools, focusing the gaps between the law and the practice in the schools.
Keywords : Public Policies; School Education; Indigenous People; Indigenous Knowledge.