História e cultura indígena nas licenciaturas em História: USP, UNESP/FCL-Assis, UNICAMP e PUC-SP

Abstract

The research accomplishes the study of the curricula of four courses of Graduation in History, all of located universities in the State of São Paulo, in search of to understand and to demonstrate the process for which contents of Indigenous History start to be relevant in these courses. The Law 11.645/08, ordained and sanctioned by the then president of the republic, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva - that turns obligatory the teaching of History and Indigenous Culture in every net of the basic teaching - it is direct fruit of the claims of the indigenous movement, NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations), indigenists and universities, that long for to see recognized the contributions of the indigenous people in the process of formation of the Brazilian nation. Referred her law when reinforcing the relevance that the school has when turning obligatory the teaching of the histories and indigenous cultures, it takes to the questioning and understanding of the importance of the University in the process of the teachers' formation and in the production historiographical for the teaching of the theme. In that context, the demand created by the law can appear for inclusion of contents, constitution of a specific academic discipline in the grating curricular, contests for the provision of vacancies for specialists in the area and increase of researches and institutional academic orientations. For the study we analyzed the pertinent legislation and the curriculum of the Degrees in History of USP, UNESP/FCL- Assis, Unicamp and PUC-SP, starting from the reading of the pedagogic projects, programs of disciplines and digest the most recent. The curriculum concepts and discipline used it reference in Ivor Goodson's considerations and André Chervel