RELIGIÕES AFRICANAS E INDÍGENAS E O ENSINO DE HISTÓRIA: UMA DESCRIÇÃO DA PRÁTICA DOCENTE NA CIDADE DE CÁCERES – MT.

Abstract

This study addresses the teaching of history and indigenous African religions in the school environment through the speeches of history teachers from public schools in the city of Cáceres-MT in order to understand which images / representations of history that these teachers have about African and indigenous religions. The survey was conducted in all 13 state schools in the city, it was found during the research that often religious issues these people are covered in a very superficial and stereotypical way, so today a change in mindset is needed in the process teach and learn about African and indigenous religiosity, since, after the enactment of laws and 10639/03 11645/08 becomes compulsory the teaching of African and indigenous culture in basic education, was used as a methodology of a study subjective nature of the issues involved in this study, we chose a qualitative research thus transcribe speech of some teachers about this school, making a reflection of the same spot taking into account the resources used to teach the history of these people. It is expected that with the completion of this research it can serve as a reflection for public policies of the government towards this minority that ends up being forgotten, that bad in its history had a great contribution to the formation of Brazilian society.