Formação de Docentes Indígenas : Interculturalidade e prática docente Mura

Abstract

This research has as its theme the graduation process of Mura indigenous teachers under the light of the Indigenous Teachers Graduation Course of the Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM. The pedagogical process of such a course emerges from a series of dialog, creation, implementation processes between UFAM Professors and Mura Indigenous Teachers Organization – OPIM. The choice of such theme took inspiration in this educator and researcher’s experience in a variety of courses taken with other indigenous teachers, specially those of the Mura ethnical group with whom several researches have been developed. The object of this thesis aimed to investigate the existence of a correlation between the intercultural magnitude of Teachers graduation process and this of these indigenous teachers’ pedagogical practice at their schools. In order to respond to the questioning made in this thesis, these other questions were made: how does the Indigenous Teachers Graduation Course conceive the interculturality? What disciplines, subjects and activities lead to interculturality in a Mura class? What activities reverberate the intercultural magnitude in the Mura teaching practice? The investigation was conducted from: documental analysis, observation of the teaching practice in two Mura schools and semiformal interviews with Mura teachers and with those from UFAM who worked with the Mura class along the graduation course. Given the singularity of the social individuals involved, this study made use of the qualitative methodology of research, guided by the Hermeneutic-Dialectic Method (MINAYO, 2006). The result of the investigation defends that there exists a correlation between the intercultural scope of teachers graduation and the intercultural scope of the pedagogical practice of teachers at school. Such a practice is seen as intercultural due to the form as the Mura teachers articulate knowledge from their own culture with others from different societies; how they contextualize knowledge from a local sphere to a universal one; how they use such knowledge from several areas situating its practice in the interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives in the pursuit of welfare.