O programa escola intercultural bilíngue de fronteira: um olhar para novas politicas linguísticas.

Abstract

ABSTRACT: PEIBF, created in 2005 as an action between Brazil and Argentina, proposes the gradual transformation of schools located at the border into bilingual intercultural institutions, to offer their students an education based on a new frontier concept, linked to regional integration, knowledge and respect for the culture of the neighboring country. This paper aims to show the process chosen by the Intercultural Bilingual School Project (PEIBF), as well as their teaching methods, highlighting the need of new language policies due to the multilingualism and multiculturalism typical of the border region, taking into account its influence on the construction of the identity of its inhabitants. The bilingual education that I support has the aim of providing intercultural contextualization, that is, to instruct the children through the L1 and L2 to ensure equal conditions and reach the common basic knowledge, promoting individual identity, respect, recognition of group differences which are part of national mosaics, as well as the unity that is necessary to make each country a singular nation. Since PEIBF is a means that provides many possibilities for this educational concept to take place, I intended to answer the following questions: which are the socio-cultural and linguistic characteristics of the three border region Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina, how the pedagogical process at Bordering Bilingual Schools occurs, and what are the concepts of language, bilingualism, interculture and identity which are the basis of pedagogical practices at PEIBF. This research is a qualitative, ethnographic study case, and is based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of Applied Linguistics (LA). It is developed based on the concept of language, culture and identity as something multiple, dynamic, hybrid and at a constant change. (SANTOS and CAVALCANTI, HALL, 2005; DAMKE, 1992, 2009; RAJAGOPALAN, 1998); Bi/multilingualism is seen as the ability to make use of more than one language (MAHER, 2007; CAVALCANTI, 1999; SANTOS, 2004; MOITA LOPES, SAVEDRA, 2009; DAMKE, 1992, 2009; VON BORSTEL, 1999, among others) and appropriate language policies to the socio-educational context (CALVET, 2007; OLIVEIRA, 2009, 2003; HAMEL, 1999; SAVEDRA, 2003). Thus, I hope this work contributes to the creation of new schools at PEIBF and can also provide support, so that an educational policy which takes into account multilingualism and cultural characteristics of the border regions may be thought later on.