As práticas lúdicas na Comunidade Indígena Tabalascada em Roraima

Abstract

The playfulness, despite being experienced with greater intensity in childhood, is a human need at any stage of life. The development of the human being with the playful may allow the processes of communication, socialization, speech and knowledge construction. Thus, this stimulus can happen rich, creative and enjoyable, ie, preserving the sense of discovery and joy contained in any type of activity, raising the self-esteem of those involved in the process. The playful indigenous practices were the subject of this study and, based on these assumptions, this study aimed to analyze the ludic practices in Indigenous Community Tabalascada. Seeking to know the universe through the socio-cultural meanings they assume in subjects who make use of them, in times past and present, in the experience of the community members in their oral narratives, establishing the relationship between the indigenous traditional aspects taught and learned from older generations and newer finally. In order to analyze and systematize the ludic practices in Indigenous Community Tabalascada was performed ethnographic research with a qualitative approach and through participant observation, and collected oral narratives. It is believed that this research contributed to the recording and valuation of traditional knowledge by indigenous peoples in their processes of teaching and learning with playful practices that have been narrated, revealing the importance of this playfulness, as well as to people who show interest in the object of study.