EDUCAÇÃO INDÍGENA: identidade étnica e cultural

Abstract

This paper deals with the Indigenous Education, the identity, and the curricular proposals. This approach is justified by the reason that, currently, a new moment happens for indigenous education. It stops being imposed as a necessary condition to the "domestication" of the indigenous, and their acculturation by the white ethnic group, and begins to be turned to indigenous’ own interests, and to the respect for their identity, and way of life. The curricular proposals look for guaranteeing this respect for identity, and culture through school education, as provided by the Federal Constitution (1988). The objective of this approach is to analyze the curricular proposals for indigenous education and the adaptation to their culture, respecting their specificities, in order to guarantee the preservation of their identity. This purpose will be achieved through bibliographic research. This study evidenced that, over the time, the indigenous were subjected to the hegemony of the white ethnic group that forced them to transform their identity, but that the proposals for the indigenous education in the present moment, are based on an education directed to their interests, the respect for their culture, and way of living, and that the civil society and governmental agents act as contributors of these proposals.