Abstract

URQUIZA, Antonio Hilário Aguilera. Higher education in Brazil and modalities of intercultural collaboration - strategic space for the construction of self-determination of indigenous peoples. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.50, pp.63-81.  Epub May 07, 2019. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v24i50.1157.

The present text intends to present theoretical reflection, from the coexistence with indigenous students in the specific bachelor's degrees and regular courses, in the universities of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. For some time now, these indigenous peoples have attained higher education, but in recent years, this presence has become increasingly significant. We have, thus, an expressive amount of indigenous people studying undergraduate and post-grade, a context that provokes innumerable reflections, one of them being the place of the so-called traditional knowledge and intercultural collaboration practices. This relationship between the so-called scientific knowledge (Western, Eurocentric), and traditional knowledge will be the result of an analysis based on the concept of interculturality and the discussions of authors known as post-colonial. We will see that the strategies and modalities of intercultural collaboration have the goal of building the autonomy and self-determination of these traditional peoples. All this, is presented as one of the ways out of which we call here a monocultural university.

Keywords : indigenous peoples; interculturality; traditional knowledge; colonialidade; self-determination.

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