O LIVRO DIDÁTICO COMO ESPAÇÇO DE PRODUÇÃO, REPRESENTAÇÃO E INTERPRETAÇÃO: A QUESTÃO INDÍGENA EM DEBATE

Abstract

Based on the development of the theme “The textbook as a space for production, representation and interpretation: the indigenous issue under debate”, we aim to understand how indigenous peoples are being represented in textbooks, after the implementation of Law 11.645 / 2008, having as object of analysis the book of "History", that constitutes the "Project Buriti". Work published in 2014 by Editora Moderna, these books are adopted in the 3rd and 4th year of elementary school I, in public schools in the City of Caldas Novas - GO. The development of the theme combined with the experiences in the classroom allowed us to verify that there is a superficial and stereotyped approach to the theme, both in textbooks and in the teachers' organization when addressing the subject. Indigenous peoples are represented by textbooks, still maintaining stereotypes of the past, strengthening the indigenous image through a romanticized and malevolent vision, which rarely corresponds to the reality experienced by indigenous peoples in contemporary times. However, we understand that textbooks do not constitute the whole in the process of intellectual and social development of students, since teaching, especially History, a field in which we focus on research, goes beyond the content elements. The methodology adopted was the analysis of the textbook supported by researchers and writers who target the indigenous cultural diversity in the textbook, which can be conceived as a source for research, as it is a source of human production and as such a view and analyzed as a possibility of access to the representations that a society builds of itself and of the world, always seeking support in the theoretical field of cultural history.