Educação escolar e práticas comunitárias na vida Apurinã: o fazer pedagógico da comunidade São João

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis on school education of Indian people in São João community, Tapauá city and it is a result of an ethnographic research. The Apurinã people belong to the linguistic branch Aruak and they are spread along all the Purus River. São João community is located near Tapauá city, where people have been living for 45 years approximately. There are 11 families that contain about 75 people all told. The (indian) Municipal School Santo Antonio exists since 1997 and along these 10 years open, it has been having always an indian teacher. Moreover, the school constitutes a place of fights and conquers to these people. The community gives great value to the school and it integrates important communitarian educational practices when doing the pedagogical commitments. Along with its commitments the communitarian participation in children education process, specially, in mother tongue teaching, oral development, children autonomy to cope with teaching/learning and in attention as a way of teaching and learning. The work analyzes these absorptions and other implications of this school, which inspire of be an official institution managed by non-indian administrators, has been transformed by its intense participation on developed activities.