Conceptions of interculturality in Physics Education in Bahia

Abstract

This work constitutes a reflection on the function of Physics teaching within an indigenous school scope and the possibility of interculturality as epistemological basis in the elaboration and production of intercultural indigenous learning materials in Physics teaching. In this sense, it is important to highlight the compatibility between the idealized learning material and the local context, having as proposal the interculturality and the study of Physics to found a meaningful learning of the physical processes. At the same time, the relationship between teacher, student and community represents the differential of an intercultural education in the whole indigenous school system.