THE STARS AND INDIGENOUS SCHOOL EDUCATION: TEACHING BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JARAKI PEOPLE AT INDIGENOUS SCHOOL SÃO FRANCISCO - ALDEIA LAGO DA PRAIA - RIO ARAPIUNS
Indigenous school education; indigenous astronomy; Educational product; Comic.
The present study emerges from the interest in investigating and contributing to the development of teaching and learning related themes and Astronomy with regard to cultural knowledge experienced in the daily lives of students in relation to knowledge about the indigenous sky of the Jaraki people and the Lago da Praia village . The general objective of the investigation is: to analyze the cosmology of the Jaraki people and the importance of knowledge about the stars as regulatory elements of everyday life in the village of Lago da Praia. Based on the research results, a comic book (HQ) is being produced on the subject, to be used in Science teaching at the São Francisco school. The research is being developed from a qualitative approach of the information. As for the method, the case study was chosen. The research participants were community leaders: the cacique, an elder and the teacher of notorious knowledge of the school, through interviews, in addition to the observation of the context. The collected data are being treated from Bardin's set of content analysis techniques. In the data collection phase with the leaders, systematic observation and interviews were carried out. The project is in the process of finalizing the data analysis and starting to prepare the resulting educational product (EP), which will be a booklet in comic book format (HQ), aimed at 8th grade students. And 9th. year of indigenous school education – jaraki. The PE intends to bring traditional knowledge closer to school knowledge about Astronomy, as a strategy to facilitate and mediate the teaching and learning of indigenous students. Thus, from the dissemination of the indigenous culture of the Jaraki people, the strengthening of ethnic identity and the appreciation of ancestral knowledge, we believe in the capacity for cultural resistance and methodological innovation of indigenous educators, looking for themes that are conducive to the present and more significant , promoting interculturality and interdisciplinarity in Indigenous School Education.