Práticas corporais indígenas da comunidade Tenetehara-Guajajara: contribuições interculturais para a Educação Física

Abstract

The research deals with the indigenous corporal practices of the tenetehara-guajajara community, intercultural contributions to Physical Education. The objective of the research was to investigate how body identity practices experienced at the Maria de Jesus Pompeu Indigenous School, belonging to the Tenetehara-Guajajara ethnic group, in order to build a Didactic-Pedagogical Orientation Guide to assist Physical Education teachers in the spaces indigenous and non-indigenous schoolchildren to have new pedagogical possibilities in the intercultural perspective and in the implementation of Law 11.645 / 2008. The study is organized into four sections. The first section describes the Introduction, in which we present the organization of the essay text. The second section deals with School Physical Education and Indigenous Culture, where we discussed Law 11,645 / 2008, Interculturality, Corporal Practices, the indigenous cultural manifestation in the curriculum and the indigenous people from Maranhão. The third section deals with empirical research, which was divided into three subsections: The characterization of EI Maria de Jesus Pompeu; the Research Methodology; Analysis and interpretation of research data; and the educational product. In the fourth section we present the final considerations. The research procedure method adopted was action research. The research participants were: the teacher / chief of the community and four older indigenous people from the village. Our data collection instruments were: observation and interviews. The research concluded that the use of indigenous body practices of the ethnic Tenetehara-Guajajara, confirm a repertoire of knowledge embodied in the indigenous culture and bring contributions that can and should be incorporated in the curricular contents, making the teaching-learning process more diversified and intercultural.