MYTHICAL ORAL NARRATIVES IN RIVERSIDE SCHOOL DAYLY LIFE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ECOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

Resumo

This article takes into account the fact that most schools in the Amazon region of Pará give little value to other literatures as literary literacy practices because they are not recognized by academia as literature proper, such as mythical oral narratives, which feed the symbolic imagination of riverside social groups. The objectives of this work are to analyse the theoretical foundations that problematize the invisibility of popular knowledge, based on Santos' ecology of knowledge (2006) and to analyse the issue of literary segregation, through mythical narratives, of social groups that inhabit riverside communities in the Amazon region of Pará. This is a scientific study. Among the theoretical references analyzed in this text are Arroyo (2014), Bacherlard (1942) and Santos (2006; 2010). The results stand out: literary reading, as well as the oral exposition of mythical narratives from different social groups through storytelling, which do not have oral records, need to be discovered by children and young readers as an infinite source of leisure/knowledge/doing, and it is necessary for teachers to mediate the relationship between popular knowledge and scientific knowledge, carrying out the ecology of knowledge in schools and recognizing and valuing the traditional knowledge of these communities.