Política de assimilação: educação escolar indígena em Alagoas a partir da constituição de 1988

Abstract

The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate the process of depreciation of the indigenous identity in Alagoas, as well as in all the Brazil, through the analysis of education and its relation with the social projects and politicians processes. Before the 1988´s Constitution, the "indigenous scholar 2 education in Alagoas always acted to adjust native people to Brazilian´s society project, instituted with strong eurocentric characteristics. After 1988 s Constitution and since 1996 LDB, in some Brazilian States, effectively appears a specific and differentiated educational proposition for the native people who remain in so-called indigenous communities. Other native originated people that had been coed-opt by the national communion in before 1988 s periods, start to lose their historical memories (AIRES, 2000a). Their traditional view was distorted and modified, in apparently irreversible way, through the structure mounted by differentiated indigenous scholar education. It happens because the autochthon worldview has to be understood as a different reality contrasting the Brazilian men and women´s one. This way, the indigenous scholar education practice, after the 1988´s Constitution, although it breaches with the politic of assimilation, does not modify the structural causes served by the politic of assimilation.