INTERCULTURAL SCHOOL

INTERCULTURALITY IN THE CURRICULUM OF INDIGENOUS SCHOOLS

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from the theoretical contribution that underlies the Doctoral Thesis that investigates – NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR TRAINING BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS (PARFOR), IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SANTO ANTÔNIO DO IÇA – AMAZONAS. The study shows that approaching the principle of interculturality implies an understanding of culture and its diff erent conceptions. We are a multi-ethnic and plural society and this implies a diversity of cultures. The reductionist conception ended up hierarchizing cultures by thinking of them in an evolutionary process, as if one culture had to evolve to reach the level of another. Thus, for a long time it was understood that there was a superior culture and other inferior cultures that should have come to it. In this case, the culture understood as cultured was the culture of Western Europe and its expressions took place through art, music, dance, its language, its religion.