Povo Avá-Canoeiro: educação escolar indígena e interculturalidade crítica

Abstract

The Avá-Canoeiro indigenous people are located in two Brazilian states, in Goiás with a family of 8 indigenous people and in Tocantins where other families live with approximately 22 indigenous people. The research was conducted with the Avá-Canoeiro of Goiás. The text is organized in two analyses, the first is about the attempts to access formal education, and the second will address the process of establishing the Ikatoté Indigenous School, which was based on a proposal of Indigenous School Education linked to the pedagogical principles of critical interculturality, linguistic diversity and respect for their own learning processes, taking into account the reality and history of this people. In order to carry out this research, several field activities were carried out, which included interviews, workshops, and didactic-pedagogical activities. The results of the research demonstrated that the difficulties of access of the Avá-Canoeiro to a differentiated and intercultural education, as guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution and the LDB (1996), continue to be enormous, as can be seen in the various attempts to create the Ikatoté Indigenous School over the last 20 years.