Representations of indigenous people in contemporary textbooks

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.4754

Keywords:

Indigenous people, textbooks, portrait of indigenous people, indigenous people in school

Abstract

This paper presents data from a research on how indigenous people are visually represented in contemporary textbooks. It is a qualitative study with exploratory emphases, based on documental analysis, in the study of images and data collected from Brazilian educational handbooks. The data analysis and interpretation are based on the hermeneutical philosophical tradition. The investigation highlighted that although there are signs of progress in the public policies that make indigenous people visible in our society, there is much improvement needed regarding the visual representation of Amerindians in textbooks, particularly the construction of this identity in the contemporary world that is free from stereotypes, invisibility, and Eurocentrism that exists in society and is reaffirmed in textbooks. The image of indigenous people come from the twisted ideas that we learn when we are in school. This stereotypical projection remains once we are not in touch with materials that portrait these people in the correct way, but also because of the previous mistaken conceptions that people who produce these cultural artifacts have.

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Author Biographies

Luana Barth Gomes, Universidade La Salle/Canoas

Doutoranda em Educação pela Universidade La Salle/Canoas, com bolsa CAPES/PROSUC. Professora dos anos iniciais do Colégio La Salle São João de Porto Alegre.

Denise Regina Quaresma da Silva, Universidade La Salle/Canoas

Professora do Porgrama de PPG em Educação da Universidade La Salle/Canoas. Professora do PPG em Diversidade Cultural e Inclusão Social da Universidade Feevale/Novo Hamburgo.

Cledes Antonio Casagrande, Universidade La Salle/Canoas

Doutor em Educação pela PUCRS. Professor do PPG em Educação da Universidade La Salle.

Published

2020-05-04

How to Cite

Gomes, L. B., da Silva, D. R. Q., & Casagrande, C. A. (2020). Representations of indigenous people in contemporary textbooks. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 75. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.4754

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Educação e Povos Indígenas