Identidades (in)visíveis: indígenas em contexto urbano e o ensino de história na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This work is a teaching material for the implementation at the metropolitan region on Rio de Janeiro of the law 11.645/08, that includes indigenous history and culture in the mandatory curriculum of primary education. It starts from the idea that the understanding of de indigenous population from the paradigm of coloniality prevents that great part of people notices the transformations suffered by those throughout the centuries, at the same time that leads to a poor perception of their presence in the urban space, specialy in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, that has a great indigenous population, and also direct descendants, that live daily among the rest os society, including in classrooms, but are invisible. This material is made of as exposition about indigenous in urban contexto, a notebook of activities and a dissertative text that shows the theoretical and methodological options adopted.