CONNECTING ANCESTORAL KNOWLEDGE: A CURRICULAR PROPOSAL FOR THE SÃO SEBASTIÃO INDIGENOUS SCHOOL
Educational Product, interculturality, well-known cultural knowledge.
This research was carried out in the São Sebastião Indigenous Village of the Arapium People, at the São Sebastião Indigenous School located in the Terra dos Encandados Indigenous Territory, an area overlapping the Tapajós/Arapiuns Extractive Reserve (RESEX) to obtain data for the elaboration of a specific Educational Product and intercultural for the science discipline, using as a reference ancestral knowledge about the biodiversity of the local flora that makes up the Village. The objective was: Develop a school curriculum proposal for the São Sebastião indigenous school in the São Sebastião village, connecting ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants and local fauna, and a guidance manual for the application of content in an intercultural manner in the discipline of science in classes from the 6th to the 9th year of elementary school. The study is qualitative and is characterized by ethnographic and field research, based on what is presented to us (RAUEN, 2006, p. 169). In data collection, procedures such as participant research and instruments such as unstructured interviews, a field diary, and a small notebook were used. The interlocutors were the natives of the São Sebastião village as leaders (chiefs, shamans and natural medicine scholars, indigenous and non-indigenous teachers). The study was based on aspects of Ethnoresearch. The research followed the following path. 1) Talk to leaders individually and then in a larger group that they called an assembly; 2) Meeting to discuss and practice activities with inputs from local flora; 3) Data collection from selected interlocutors, including indigenous and non-indigenous teachers, chiefs, shamans, village residents and elders. The manual follows the following content dynamics for two months. The knowledge known for intercultural pedagogical practice, in each two months there are two components, in the 1st Knowledge of Experience and Knowledge of Knowledge; 2nd Cultural Knowledge and Experiential Knowledge; 3rd Knowledge of Nature and Knowledge of the Forest; 4th Pedagogical knowledge and assessment. It is expected to contribute to the school and teachers, enabling different ways of teaching, with science curricular content about the local flora and ancestral knowledge present in the memory of the elders, our indigenous sages.