Educação do campo e cultura indígena: uma (re)introdução nos costumes do indígena Potiguara

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze the importance of the culture and its indigenous customs with together with the children of the 3rd grade of Elementary School I of the Escola Estadual Akajutibiró, understanding the significance of indigenous education in dealing with culture and tradition in the Potiguara community. We selected the descriptive research with a qualitative approach and visited to the school field for three times to identify if the unit presented on projects wich one could share indigenous cultural knowledge. When realizing that the only school project in this bias was extinct, we put the garden project into practice at school. And then it was possible to realize the colaborative learning of the students during the building of the workshop in a meanful way to continue the research according to Cacique’s requested. As a result, this study revealed that indigenous school education has advanced, especially after the insertion of field education professionals, but still needs to be quite discussed and put into practice according to the reality of each community. Although this type of education is guaranteed by law, as a differentiated education, methodologies are still lacking, which ends up disrupting some educational possibilities that are associated with the culture and tradition of the indigenous Potiguaras.