THE MEANING OF THE WORD INDIGENOUS IN THE TEXTBOOKS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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ABSTRACT

This research is based on the Semantic of Event with contributions of Anthropology and Social Sciences, aiming at analyze the meanings of the word, indigenous, found in official guiding laws of teaching/learning practices, documents wich guide the selection of textbooks, and Elementary School Textbooks. For the composition of our corpus, we have selected excerpts from the National Curriculum Guidelines for Elementary School, the National Curriculum Parameters for Elementary School of Portuguese Language, the Federal Law nº 9.099/2017, the National Guide to the Portuguese Language Textbook and three textbooks most adopted by public schools, according to the PNLD 2017 report. Throughout the history, the indian was the first to suffer attacks in favor of the so-called “civilizing process” in Brazil. Thus, the extermination of the indigenous has long been seen as necessary for the advancement of progress. As a professional of education, this researcher on his pedagogical practice realized that the indigenous cultural content approaches in textbooks, besides being limited in the textbooks material, they portray the indigenous from a primitive perspective. Therefore, our reasearch starting question is: What are the meanings of the word indigenous constituted in the official documents and textbooks on Elementary School? Our hypothesis on is that the texts found in the official documents of education and textbooks can demonstrate either social place defending respect for diversity or prejudice against the indigenous. As this research is affiliated to the Semantics of Event, proposed by Eduardo Guimarães (2002), who understands that the senses constitute the event of saying, the methodological path adopted here considered the enunciative procedures of meaning production - rewriting and articulation -, the construction of a DSD (Semantic Domain of Determination), temporality and, in this case excerpts that refer to the indigenous and cultural diversity.