Abstract

SA, Maria José Ribeiro de  and  ALMEIDA, Maria Conceição de. MYTHS AND EDUCATION IN THE TENTEHAR ANCESTRALITY. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.67, pp.127-142.  Epub Jan 13, 2023. ISSN 2358-0194.  https://doi.org/10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.2022.v31.n67.p127-142.

The article deals with pedagogies of education of the Tentehar people. The study was developed with the tentehar people who live in the indigenous territory of Arariboia. Using the ethnographic method, we used semi-structured interviews, open dialogues, photographs, and notes in a field notebook. The interlocutors of the study went tradition intellectuals, elders, indigenous leaders, and teachers from the Juçaral village. In the articulation between mythical narratives and the participants’ biocultural memory, we recalled principles and values that guide thought and pedagogy in the indigenous world. The plot was produced by men and women who shared with us their knowledge, ways of life, and daily problems. In the ancestral culture, mythical narratives feed the formative process among these people, through which values that educate in their cosmology are transmitted. Oral repetition is one of the methods for learning and teaching in this culture. Among the results obtained, we highlight that their narratives irrigate individual and collective memory, feed pedagogies of resistance, of the good life, and of the care for life. Their main traditional rituals, of the young girl, of the boys, and the honey festival, keep them connected with their primordial values, some of which are: the respect for the knowledge of the elders and their teachings; the respectful and balanced coexistence with the diversity; thanking and revering existence for the gift of life.

Keywords : indigenous education; narratives; memory; Tentehar people.

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