CHILDHOOD IN THE VILLAGE: HOW THE EDUCATION OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN IN THE AMAZON IS CONSTRUCTED AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES IN PRESERVING THEIR TRADITIONS

Abstract

The present study aims to verify whether the actions of public educational policies, which ensure the learning of indigenous children, are consistent with indigenous culture and traditions, especially in the Amazon, highlighting the way in which learning occurs for indigenous children in the region and in their communities. This is bibliographical research carried out using books and material already published on the subject, available on the Internet. It was found, among other things, that the National Education Plan (PNE) includes a chapter on indigenous school education, providing for the creation of specific programs to serve indigenous schools. Despite this, indigenous schools continue to practice inadequate pedagogy, using the conventional education system as a reference, that is, a school with non-indigenous characteristics, outside the specific molds that involve bilingualism, the intercultural curriculum and a Pedagogical Political Project representative of the culture and indigenous traditions. Meanwhile, in indigenous communities in the Amazon, indigenous children's learning takes place in a variety of ways such as listening to stories, swimming, participating in rituals and parties, and also through ancestral stories, tales and narratives that are present in the people's imagination of the Amazon region.