"WHY DID YOU TEACH US THAT WAY?"

INTERCONNECTIONS OF ETHNIC AND GENDER CONCEPTS WITH PHILOSOPHY IN HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This article is based on the understanding that Philosophy, in High School, contributes to the possibility of ruptures in discourses that are inferior, especially the native peoples of Brazil. It also promotes the re-elaboration of other ways of saying, as a young indigenous woman, breaking with conceptual and ontological constructions elaborated around the representations of the 'good young India'. Thus, it is stated the need to open places of speeches with young Potiguara-PB to favor problems in the Teaching of Philosophy, enhanced by articulations between the concepts of gender and ethnicity. The verbal expressions of young women Potiguara-PB, present in this article, were born during the PhD research, in which semi-structured interviews were used, with 8 young students Potiguara-PB, enrolled in the Escola Cidadã Integral Técnica Professor Luiz Gonzaga Burity, in 2018, located in the city of Rio Tinto/PB. In this city are the villages Monte-Mór, Jaraguá, Silva de Belém and Mata Escura. With this hermeneutic exercise, it is evident that the “we are not” is what they taught us to be. Denaturalizing concepts that fundamental this teaching is one of the challenges of Philosophy, in High School, to dismantle the traditional discursive representations of the 'good young Indian' transmitted as being the true place of young indigenous women.