PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND INDIGENOUS SCHOOL EDUCATION: The case of the Borari of the Maró Indigenous Land
Physical Education. Indigenous School Education. Differentiated Indigenous Education.
The teaching of the curricular component Physical Education in Indigenous School Education is the object of study of this research. The objective is to understand how the curricular component Physical Education in Indigenous School Education is being developed in the light of the interests of the indigenous people themselves and the norms established by the Ministry of Education for this educational modality. The research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, it was carried out in 2019 at the Borari school of the Terra Indígena Maró, located in the region of the Arapiuns River in the municipality of Santarém-Pa. Data were produced through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with indigenous people (pedagogical coordination, Physical Education teachers and indigenous leaders), which were analyzed using the Content Analysis technique. It is concluded that the knowledge that deals with Physical Education at school was being reorganized by the indigenous people, who, within their educational institution, were structuring a proposal for the curricular component based on what is provided for by the educational legislation for indigenous schools: the elaboration of their own specific learning processes, in which the traditional knowledge present in reality and indigenous daily life are inserted and treated in the school institution.