Currículo, cultura e educação: a realidade insular do currículo em Belém

Abstract

This article consists of a literary review which aims at questioning the influence of riverine inhabitants’ culture on the curriculum of riverine schools in Belém, establishing as its objective the re ection upon the school curriculum of those schools: Which identity it expresses? In which way it contributes to the cultural and social formation of the riverine inhabitants of Belém? this is a qualitative literature review-based research, comprising as its main authors Moreira e Silva (1995), Josenilda Silva J. (1993), Freire J. (2002), Fraxe (2004), Hage (2005) e Oliveira I. (2007; 2008). As a result it was identifed that the necessity for an alteration to the curriculum in order to satisfy the sociocultural reality of the riverine communities. therefore validating the specifc knowledge necessary for this reality is more than an epistemological challenge, it is rather a political matter, that is, to provide the citizens their rightful quality education and advocate the need for a curriculum that can properly attend to the singularities of the riverine inhabitants’ reality.