Tembé Tenetehar old memories: life stories and interculturality in the production of paradidactic books.
Memories; Tembé Indigenous People; Life Stories; Interculturality; Portuguese Language Teaching.
This work is the result of a research that was carried out at the village of São Pedro, Sede, Zawar uhu, (Zawar uhu which means “onça grande”) and Itaputyr (“Flor da Pedra”), which are located in the Terra Indígena Alto Rio Guamá, (TIARG), in the municipality of Santa Luzia do Pará. It aimed to record the life stories of five Tembé elders from the villages mentioned above in order to get narratives for the production of the specific didactic material for indigenous schools, collecting knowledge about the Tembé people as well as the Portuguese language based on a methodological proposal for teaching and learning, valuing the interdisciplinarity and interculturality provided in the Referencial Curricular Nacional para as Escolas Indígenas (RCNEI). The Educational Product named Paradidactic Book with Tembé-Tenetehar Elders Memories and its use in the school contexts for teaching Portuguese language aimed to be used in classes from 6 th to 9 th grade of elementary school at the Francisco Magno Tembé School, located in the village of São Pedro. The EP was planned from a qualitative research methodology, from the practice of field research, bibliographical research and action-research divided in the following four steps: 1) data collection with interviews with the elders from the village; 2) interviews transcriptions; 3) interviews analysis where the first possible methodological proposals; 4) socialization and sharing of theses narratives with students in the classroom, and 5) the process of adjust the EP and the elaboration of the dissertation. This product was designed to be worked on at the indigenous school in the Portuguese classes, in the final years of elementary school connected with other subjects such as: History, Geography, Sciences and Arts. The data collected during the research also helped to draw the dissertation. This research showed me that there are many possibilities to strengthen Tembé culture mainly based on the life stories of the its elders. Having said that, I hope they do not get lost and always remain alive and passed on from generation to generation.