Intercultural education and the aspects of law nº 11645/2008 - history and indigenous cultures

Abstract

Intercultural education is a way of democratizing teaching. One of the challenges faced in this process is to establish efficient means to promote respect for cultural diversity. Law 11.645 / 2008 shows that the contents related to Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture should be taught within the entire school curriculum, especially in the areas of Artistic Education, Literature and Brazilian History. The purpose of this study is to present the main discussions about the insertion of indigenous culture in the History discipline. This study is an excerpt from a section of the master’s dissertation that sought to analyze how the study of indigenous history and cultures has been taking place at IFRO Campus Cacoal. The applied methodology was the action research, for establishing an intervention aiming at the efficiency in the results of this research. The methodological instruments used were: documentary research, and bibliographic research. This research seeks to establish the conditions under which indigenous peoples live, concepts about the intercultural curriculum, explains the syronics and the experience of teaching history accordingly and the implications of the curriculum in school and its connection with diversity in order to approach the theories of the world. Curriculum with educational practices.