Abstract

SILVA, José Alessandro Cândido da. Teaching in the far west indian brazilian: an experience of training in progress. Rev. Reflex [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1es, pp.76-103. ISSN 1982-9949.  https://doi.org/10.17058/rea.v21iesp1.0076.

In this article we present part of a research whose main axis of a critical process of creating the Teacher Training Course for Indigenous in Acre. This is one of the formative experiences of Indian teachers who adds the other in Brazil and Latin America, given the recent inclusion of indigenous peoples in various undergraduate courses in the educational system. The discussion is made from the tensions between official bodies, movements and nongovernmental organizations. The text provides a brief discussion of the institutionalization of indigenous education in the state of Acre, which culminated in a challenge to the desire for continuing education by indigenous teachers, which increased the demands on higher level training course specific element that is the subject of this study. The emergence of a higher education for Indians in the westernmost region of Brazil is an experience of expanding the capacity of communities to organize their activity in school education. Amid the struggles and achievements realizes that for many indigenous communities made this also meant the possibility and guarantee a recovery of traditional culture, by building a curriculum based on the dialogue between scientific knowledge and the needs of those communities. The study points to the urgent need for reflections and actions that need to be undertaken to better understand the task that indigenous peoples and the whole society are faced with the great challenge, not to integrate but to live with the possibility of differences in all sectors of society, including the academic space.

Keywords : Education; Indigenous Education; Acre; Indigenous Degree.

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