Educação escolar Kyikatêjê: novos caminhos para aprender e ensinar

Abstract

Traditional formal education for Indigenous people historically serve colonial interests of integration and assimilation of a hegemonic society. Thanks to Indigenous leadership protagonism and legal achievements based on 1998 Federal Constitution, the National Education Law (LDB – Lei 9.394/96) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) 169 Convention, the Indigenous School became a priveleged and strategic intercultural dialogue arena where traditional knowledge and other types of knowledge come together for the training of tecnhical and political members of the movement. In the dissertation, presents the historical trajectory of Kyikatêjê people, since the current state of Maranhão until the Indigenous Mãe Maria Reserve, in the Southeast region of the State of Pará. In this thesis, research takes into consideration the appropriation of school education rights by the Kyikatêjê People who in the exercise of their selfdetermination build in the school arena their school education as instrument of a sttrugle against the denial of their rights. The study contextualizes the strategy of the leadership and their associates in facing a daily sttrugle to garantee their rights to education at all levels according to their needs to train individuals to defend and promote Indigenous Peoples rights to land, education, health and economic sustainability. Such strategies relate to their effort to implement and maintain Kyikatêjê identity.