Do Mãe Maria ao Assentamento Araras: territorialidade posseira no Araguaia e Educação do Campo

Abstract

This article aims to reflect about Araras settlement path in a way that people narrative from the indian land called Mãe Maria present establishment elements of Araguaia territoriality. We also seek to discuss the use of these narratives in teaching and learning process at the local school, as a practical model of field education. We based this qualitative research on observations, recorded interviews, documental research, and data from a reading and writing project during an intervention at the local school, involving settled people, students, as well as teachers. We turned the collected narratives into a comic book that we used as reading and writing didactic material in classes; because of this project, we produced a kind of hornbook with the community history. From this hornbook and the use of settled people’s narratives in classes had contributed in students reading, interpretation, and writing production. As a result, it is possible to consider that field education is a model to follow, since it values local knowledge, reframe the school and indeed contribute to settled people sense of territoriality.