Abstract

FLEURI, Reinaldo Matias. Learning with indigenous peoples. R. Educ. Públ. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.62, pp.277-294. ISSN 2238-2097.  https://doi.org/10.5965/01045962v26n622017294.

Victor Valla (1996, p.178) pointed out “[…] the difficulty that professionals and intellectuals have to understand what the popular classes are trying to tell them […]” and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro invites us to learn from indigenous peoples. From this perspective, we discuss what we are learning with the indigenous peoples of Latin America. We place this discussion in the context of Brazilian colonization and resistance of indigenous peoples. Under the decolonial and non-colonial approach of intercultural studies, we discuss indigenous conceptions and policies of sustainability and well-living. We conclude by commenting on the connections of Paulo Freire’s pedagogical conception with the indigenous way of educating.

Keywords : Indigenous; Decoloniality; Interculturalism; Well-Living.

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