Libério Mayk Luciano dos SANTOS and Anilton Salles GARCIA
RPGE – Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 28, n. 00, e023011, 2024. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v28i00.19279 9
According to Barbosa (2008, p. 17, our translation), "we cannot understand the culture
of a country without knowing its art." Therefore, based on this assertion, students' contact with
indigenous art through the teaching of visual arts is one possibility for understanding the culture
of indigenous peoples.
Indigenous art is one of the most reliable ways to demonstrate indigenous culture. In
these artistic expressions, we can observe, in visual production, a wide variety of lines, shapes,
volumes, textures, braids, and artistic coeducations that investigate the role of art in school
education. Maria Felisminda Fusari and Maria Heloísa Ferraz (2001, p. 124, our translation)
point out that "[...] indigenous art can offer greater opportunities for studies and direct contact
with (ceramics, weaving, music, body arts, ornaments, feather art)".
Therefore, the inclusion of indigenous culture in schools, through the teaching of visual
arts, allows students to have direct contact with various indigenous artistic expressions and
offers the opportunity to create visual arts using local materials such as clay, seeds, wood, and
natural pigments, as well as to learn about artistic orthography, the geometry of designs, music,
and musical instruments.
For Paviani, "art should be meaningful for teachers and students through
experimentation, artistic reflection, and action, starting from the cultural and historical context
of this group and reaching other different contexts" (Paviani, 2008, p. 124, our translation).
Thus, it is essential that educators be professionals with significant performance,
seeking to update themselves with new media and information and developing research and
projects within and outside the school. In this sense, the doctor in arts, Rejane Coutinho,
explains that "it is necessary for the work of the art teacher not to be isolated within the school
walls. The school urgently needs to open its doors and welcome the cultural production of its
community and other places and times" (Paviani, 2008, p. 159, our translation).
The art teacher, in collaboration with the students, can visit cities related to indigenous
culture, providing a rich information source and generating knowledge about local indigenous
culture. These visits allow for cultural and artistic knowledge exchanges, creating and
facilitating a space for cultural exchange between communities.
According to the National Curriculum Parameters (NCP) that address art, it is
understood that the study of arts from different cultures can empower students to understand
the relativity of the values that underlie ways of thinking and acting, thus creating a field of
meaning to evaluate their own cultures. This contributes to the appreciation of the richness and
diversity of human imagination. Additionally, by critically observing the elements present in