PROCESSES OF LITERACY AND LITERACY WITH KAINGANG CHILDREN

RETHINKING SCHOOL PRACTICES TÍTULO EM ESPANHOL

Abstract

In this text, through bibliographical and empirical research, we approach the literacy and literacy processes in a Kaingang indigenous community in the Ivaí Valley, with the objective of analyzing the methods used with indigenous children at the beginning of the acquisition of written language, whether in Kaingang or in Portuguese language. The results show that the literacy and literacy processes were not developed in proximity to the contents and forms of Kaingang learning. Pedagogical practices adopt traditional methods, prevailing the synthetic method that results in mechanical reading of decoding, with very few possibilities for a broader social use of written language, which implies proposing methodologies that can strengthen the right of a specific, bilingual and differentiated