Itinerâncias da política curricular do ensino básico na Guiné-Bissau 1973-2011: saberes locais e diversidade cultural

Abstract

The present academic work quests to understand the itinerancies of the elementar education curriculum policy in Guinea-Bissau and its link with diversities and epistemologies local between the year of its independence and that of the implementation of the Basic Law of the Educational System (1973-2011). The research has as its structuring element the elementary education curriculum policy in Guinea- Bissau and its link with diversities and epistemologies local. The research results aim that the curriculum policy has undergone several changes and discontinuities, resulting from educational reforms financed by International Organizations (IO), with the process that began in the 1980s, with economic liberalism. The impacts of these reforms are directly related to the absence of linking local knowledge and cultural diversities in the current elementary education curriculum policy in Guinea-Bissau. Throughout the investigation, it was possible to understand, through the application of questionnaires, the perceptions of elementary school teachers from a public school “Quero Apreender” located in Ilondé, in the Biombo region, about local knowledge and cultural diversities in the elementar school curriculum. The teachers were unanimous in considering the need to appreciation local knowledge and cultural diversity in the school curriculum and related such knowledge to the cultural aspects of some ethnic groups in Guinea-Bissau that are manifested in their social practice. Methodologically, the academic work was developed from a qualitative approach, with the application of questionnaires, making an articulation through document analysis with theoretical bases substantiated on the conception of curriculum policy, local knowledge and cultural diversities, focusing on education, taking as a reference the studies by Geertz (1997); Sacristán (2000); Pacheco (2000); Silva (2002); Candau (2002), Ball (2001); Lopes (2004); Gomes (2007); Macedo (2017) and Goodson (2018).