Abstract

SILVA, Reijane Pinheiro da. Between worlds and between knowledges: epistemological challenges of Akwen-Xerente Students at Tocantins Federal University. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2015, vol.40, n.3, pp.537-555. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v40i3.36351.

As a part of the results in a 2011 research addressing indigenous students of Tocantins Federal University (UFT), we hereby present a few reflections on how these Akwen-Xerente people, studying at Miracema Campus of UFT, perceive the knowledge they deal with after joining the academy, how they compare it with the knowledge of their own society, called by them "traditional and natural", and yet how they critically escape of the scientificism that still persists in several departments of the academy. Considering the characteristic elements of Akwen ways of seeing and interpreting the world, we also question the lack of openness by the University to the epistemological tradition they represent.

Keywords : Akwen-Xerente Indigenous Students; Academic Knowledge; Traditional Knowledges.

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