Abstract

SILVA, Rosa Helena Dias da. An appraisal on movements of indigenous people in Brazil and the education issue: how these relate to autonomy, schools and constructing citizenship. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2000, n.13, pp.95-112. ISSN 1413-2478.

This paper proposes to make a brief historical retrospect of the indigenous Movements in Brazil by discussing these Movements over the last three decades. It brings in educational issues in the context of culture confrontations and conflicts among different courses of thought and interest, especially the Indigenous Teachers' Movement of Amazonas, Roraima and Acre. Interfaces with the conquest of indigenous citizenship, as seen from a school education perspective, are also considered. This reflection is set up in two parts. The first is linked mainly to the course of the Indigenous Movements in a broader sense and focuses on its origins and organizational strategies as well as the issues of autonomy and indigenous citizenship. The second  part of the text refers more specifically to the schooling problem, trying to analyze it from the perspective of the Amazonian Indigenous Teachers' Movement. Lt is developed in five sections that discuss the educational question, Indigenous legislation, the role of teachers in the Indigenous movement, the pedagogical characteristics of the Movement and the relations among Education, Cultures and Identities.

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