A expressão da etnia mura sobre talentos em estudantes indígenas: um diálogo intercultural na escola.

Abstract

This study aimed to know the talents of the indigenous students nominated by Mura teachers and the self indication of students, which may lead to understanding how such potential is considered and developed in the village school. The study of this theme was important to establish an intercultural dialogue with teachers and students indigenous from the education, culture and challenges Amazon, about a subject still under-researched in urban schoolchildren areas, especially among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. It was adopted an exploratory and descriptive study as a methodology to develop this research, from a qualitative approach, which was a ethnographic study as a procedure. The instruments used for data collection were a dialogue with teachers and students, the questionnaire with open and closed questions and participant observation. The method of analysis of the research was based on hermeneutic diatopical proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who understand the cultures as incomplete and the intercultural dialogue is one way to interpret the different cultural realities to find answers to your questions. The results as answers to questions that guided this study revealed that teachers Mura considered motivation, interest, glad to do something spontaneously as the essential factors in the development of talented people. Considered multiple forms of human potential when indicated indigenous students in the areas of their interests as in academic, artistic, in the psychomotor and leadership, being the academic area where the largest number of students were identified. The area of art, especially with regard to the drawing had the second highest number of referrals. The indigenous students as central participants in the study, could also express their interests, preferences and talk about their way of being. Enter in this field of research with Mura teachers and students required much study, facing challenges, overcoming boundaries, exchange of experiences and building new knowledge of the Indigenous school context and the certainty that the study with different cultures was relevant for all involved.