Indigenous History and the Political Pedagogical Projects of São Paulo's Public Universities: a look at the History courses at USP, Unicamp and UNESP

Abstract

This research intends to analyze the currents Pedagogical Political Projects (PPP) of the public state universities of São Paulo concerning History courses, in order to raise the presence of the academic discipline of Indigenous History and Culture as a component of the curriculum plans of these faculties. Starting from the legal enforcement by the Federal Law of 2008 (number 11.645) that determines the teaching of indigenous History and culture for elementary and high school students throughout the educational network, including public and private schools, this article searches how to understand this new teachers’ training based on this content. While thinking about the training of teachers of History, most of them coming from public universities, it tries to understand how the disciplines that bring contents about the indigenous people in the sociocultural formation of Brazil is an urgent task for the building of a society that respects and appreciates the diversity of peoples and cultures that have been present in the national territory even before the settlement process. This review began with the reading of the Pedagogical Political Projects from these public universities of the State of São Paulo, (USP, Unicamp and UNESP), once this document is made in order to direct the pedagogical and curricular guidelines in the training of future lecturers of History. Therefore, based on the study of these pedagogical proposals, it has tried to find out the size and the importance given to the discipline of Indigenous History and Culture in the curriculum and in the development of these professionals that will need to teach these contents in schools. Furthermore, it intends to find indications of productions of indigenous researchers and decolonial authors through the bibliographical references.