Cartografia dos saberes culturais ribeirinhos: ensino de História e as vozes marajoaras (rio Guajará-Curralinho/PA)

Abstract

This Master’s Thesis of the Professional History Teaching Program (PPGEH/UFPA) theme is the Teaching of History in the context of Riverine Education. Based on literature review on the subject, we consider that the Teaching Curriculum of the Rural/Riverine Education has not always been adequate to the reality of its demographic, as well as that the invisibility of the social and cultural practices of the peoples from the Countryside contributes to a form of Education that maintain itself Exclusionary, Eurocentric, Monocultural Linear and Evolutive. Henceforth, this research has as its general objectives the reflection about the concept of Curriculum, the Schools Historical Knowledge, Local History and Historical Consciousness; moreover, intend to give visibility to the Local History of the communities on the Guajará Riverside and the heritage knowledge of its inhabitants, allowing them due recognition and place in the History classes. The locus of research is the E.M.E.I.F. Portugal, where I have been working as History Teacher since 2017. The school is located on the right bank of the Guajará River, in a rural/riverside area of the Municipality of Curralinho-PA, and approximately 80km far from the urban center. The research was quantitative and qualitative in nature, of the Case Study type. As Historical Sources, was used a diverse set including Official Documentation as the Pedagogical Guidelines of the Portugal School (2018), the Educational Curriculum of Curralinho Municipality (2020), the Course Plan for the History Classes (2022) and the School Census of Curralinho Municipality (2023). Were also used data from the classroom activities, Fieldwork Journal, Photographs and Oral Sources collected through semi-structured interviews with five Elderly inhabitants of the community. Based on the source analysis, we concluded that the Municipality Curriculum and the Course Plan for History in the classes of 6th through 9th year present an organization of educational content in the field of History that does not take in to account the characteristics and specificities of the Rural/Riverine life in the region, despite being in line with national legislation and officially recognizing the existence of cultural diversity. The research also allowed the formulation of a Cartography of Cultural Knowledge of the Guajará River, where we identified cultural practices in the surrounding community that were associated with heritage knowledge about the waters, forests and lands of the region. Lastly, as propositional aspect of the Thesis, we developed a Didactic Sequence directed to History Teachers in Riverine Schools, which aims to rescue, register and value the memories of the Riverine peoples through a pedagogical strategy with the students as protagonists. It was intended, therefore, the making of a pedagogical practice able to communicate with the social and economic dimensions of the place, and to correlate this dimensions with the Schools Historical Knowledge in an effort to amplify the voices of Riverine subjects so that they can also be heard within the “walls” of the school.