Narrative of indigenous education and indigenous school education: The school and the teaching of the Balatiponé-Umutina people

Authors

  • Eliane Boroponepa Monzilar Universidade de Brasília-UNB, Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Mato Grosso-SEDUC, Escola de Educação Indígena Jula Paré

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.4769

Keywords:

School, Learning, Indigenous education, Knowledge

Abstract

This article deals with the study of the narrative of indigenous education and indigenous school education: The school and the teaching of the Balatiponé-Umutina people are interconnected with traditional and non-traditional educational processes focusing on impacts, advances, bottlenecks, challenges and actions that the indigenous Balatiponé-Umutina fought and organized to resist, keep alive and reconstruct the practices of traditional knowledge. The objective is to contribute to the discussion and dialogue regarding indigenous education througt the lens of the indigenous people themselves. It will include reports of elders who are knowledgeable about knowledge, young people, teachers of the Jula Paré school of indigenous education, data obtained by participant observation, its largest source and bibliographical sources. It is a record told by the indigenous researcher belonging to the said people and will promote the strengthening and dissemination of ancestral knowledge. In the school space there is a network of dialogue, an interaction between teachers, students, parents, chief, leaders, elders and community practicing ancestral actions such as dances, songs, language, body painting, stories, rituals and typical foods, crafting, traditional festival, which is held in the month of April, is the place that connects the making and learning of knowledge, as well as fosters questions about the spirituality and the conception of youth of the present compared to the past generation. It is important that elders teach knowledge, traditional knowledge for children and young people so that they can learn, build and rebuild values, be protagonists and have an indigenous Balatiponé-Umutina conception.

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Author Biography

Eliane Boroponepa Monzilar, Universidade de Brasília-UNB, Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Mato Grosso-SEDUC, Escola de Educação Indígena Jula Paré

Eliane Boroponepa Monzilar possui Graduação Licenciatura em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso-UNEMAT, pós-graduação em Educação Escolar Indígena pela Faculdade Indígena Intercultural, mestre em Desenvolvimento Sustentável Junto a Povos de Terra Indígena pela Universidade de Brasília-UNB. Doutora em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de Brasília-UNB. Atualmente é professora da Escola de Educação Indígena Jula Paré, na aldeia Umutina, Estado de Mato Grosso/ Brasil. Tem experiência na área de Educação Escolar Indígena.

Published

2020-05-11

How to Cite

Monzilar, E. B. (2020). Narrative of indigenous education and indigenous school education: The school and the teaching of the Balatiponé-Umutina people. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 77. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.4769

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Section

Educação e Povos Indígenas