Educação bilíngue em território indígena Waiwai: aldeia Tawanã

Abstract

An increasing number of Indian nations who claim a right to an education can, on one hand, help them find solutions to problems arising from contact with the national society and, second, to assure them the strengthening of ethnic identity. The bilingual education promotes additive or subtractive forms of bilingualism. These methods are related and are connected to the arguments and parameters of each school or institution. This paper aims to describe the form of education developed in the early grades in one of the villages Waiwai, located on indigenous lands of Nhamundá-Mapuera, in the Municipality of Oriximiná – Rio Mapuera – specifically in the village Tawanã. The main objective of this study is to analyze how an indigenous educator employs its methodological tools in imparting ethnocultural knowledge, and through literacy develops a bilingual education at this school. In reference to this reality, this work consists of literature based on readings and book reviews, articles, dissertations in the field of linguistics, research and analysis of material acquired in field research collected on indigenous lands in Nhamundá-Mapuera, especially in the Tawanã Village School.