A educação dos Jiripancó: uma reflexão sobre a escola diferenciada dos povos indígenas de Alagoas

Abstract

This study brings into discussion the differentiated schools for the indigenous people Jiripancó, located near the city of Pariconha in high backlands Alagoano. It discusses the writing of history as a way to understand the relationship between theory and practice in the research process, particularly the history of the Indians. It discusses the issue of culture and identity as crucial concepts in understanding the issues related to education of the community under study here. It reflects on memory, identity, culture and indigenous knowledge and experience retained in the oral and the relationship - tense - with the writing, enhanced by the learning school. It Locates geographically the Jiripancó indigenous people as an attempt to understand the human relationship with space and time. It describes and analyzes various forms of indigenous education, the symbols used in rituals, the festivals, the sacrifices, in order to survive and the ways of living. It displays the memory formation of a witchdoctor and a Chef (cacique) Jiripancó to understand in a more concrete way the people here treated. It Shows such indigenous school memory record works proposed to be used in the classroom, taking care of it in order to preserve this cultural universe. With this proposal calls for discussion on the history teaching at José Carapina School which main core must be mediation between the forms of living of indigenous people and knowledge made universally. It finalizes the text weaving criticism of the emptiness of the experience of indigenous culture and this type of education, trying to warn that the school does not become yet another element capable of undermining the power of this rich and complex cultural universe of the indigenous people.