Trends of Brazilian publications on indigenous teachers training in the natural sciences

Abstract

From the Federal Constitution of 1988, initiates it quarrel on a new format of aboriginal school. For this new format of school, the necessity appears of the formation of aboriginal professors, to take care of the lack of this professional, in the basic education. This study it had as objective to carry through a survey of national publications, of last the fifteen years, on the formation of aboriginal professors in Sciences of the Nature. To select national thesis, dissertations and articles, related with the thematic one in study, searches in the small farms of the Digital Library of Thesis and dissertations had been carried through (BDTD), of the Scientific Eletronic Library Online (Scielo) and of periodic of the Coordination of Perfectioning of Staff of Higher education (CAPES). From the readings of the summaries, the productions had been selected that presented investigated direct relation with the thematic one. We carry through the reading of the productions, identifying quantitative, the year, states, tied regions, institutions, research contexts, contexts and what they announce. 58 works had been found, being these, 21 thesis, 17 dissertations and 20 articles. Of this total, only 2 works present direct relation with the subject, its quarrels are come back toward the tensions and consequence conflicts of the meeting between knowing aboriginals and knowing them proceeding from Modern Science, as well as of the present cultural diversity in the formation of aboriginal professors. We understand, that the formation of aboriginal professors in Sciences of the Nature, exerts paper key so that the area of Education of Sciences collaborates with the projects of self-suppression and self-determination of the aboriginal peoples, from there the importance of if knowing as it is the scientific production on the subject. We verify that the field of formation of aboriginal professors is new in Brazil and, more specifically, the inquiries on the formation of aboriginal professors in Sciences of the Nature

Keywords

• formação de professores indígenas
• licenciaturas interculturais