OUTLYING GHETTOS, POWER AND CULTURE: PRACTICING THE CULTURAL CURRICULUM AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Abstract

Regards a research-action that aims to investigate how the inter-relation between pedagogical practices has contributed to promote a democratic education through the recognition of the voices, gestures, and games of a subdued culture. Associates the cultural studies and the interdisciplinarity in pursue of a renewal of the pedagogical practices. Seeks to value students’ cultural practices as the main thread of our proposal, more specifically the game of “Slaps” or as it is called “bafo” in a public estate school located in the Espírito Santo’s ghetto.  Avoiding any definitive answers, we perceived a greater enhancement of the work developed in a collective way and in dialogue with the bodily culture repertoire of students. The students, engaged in the pedagogical activity, grasped themselves as producers of knowledge and new understandings, as subjects who own, produce and spread knowledge and culture. Even though some stages of the process haven’t gone as expected, this main objective, essential to the cultural curriculum, has been reached and the work of the teachers strengthened by the interdisciplinary work.