Interculturality and (re)existence: Indigenous School Education in the villages of the Opará region, in Pernambuco

Abstract

This a perspective of Indigenous School Education of the peoples of the Opará Coverage Region, especially the Truká, Ilha da Assunção, Cabrobó, sertão of Pernambuco. This is a study on native languages, the developments that teacher training has built in communities and the prospects for building a new episteme. The methodology is based on bibliographic review, field research and document analysis, in which the speeches of indigenous teachers and the contributions of educational institutions in the production of knowledge based on traditional knowledge and public policies institutionalized in the region by the IF Sertão Pernambucano. The study presents possibilities for collective work in the production of didactic material, in the reformulation of pedagogical practices and in the emergence of a current of thought, based on decolonial theories and interculturality as an element of sociocultural resignification. One can see the consolidation of Indigenous School Education and the emergence of a generation of indigenous researchers in the semi-arid, marked by the omnipresence of the São Francisco River (Opará).