Eu no mundo: educação indígena e sustentabilidade conversando com os povos indígenas

• Main Authors: Thaís Soares Gonzaga, Juarez Melgaço Valadares, Célio da Silveira Junior
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Centro Universitário Internacional (UNINTER) 2019-10-01
• Series: Intersaberes
• Subjects: indigenous education; traditional knowledges; scientific knowledge; sustaintability
• Online Access: https://www.uninter.com/intersaberes/index.php/revista/article/view/1602/414351

Since we first entered in the world, we have been in constant learning and interaction in this surprising universe. If the environment shapes us and we shape the environment, how does education spin the wheel and acts in the intersections of what we teach and learn? How are we, individuals who feel, think, and act, composing the world? And thus, how do the different knowledges – scientific knowledge and traditional knowledge – complement each other in the comprehension of the whole? What does our understanding of the world say about ourselves? In order to answer these questions, we are going to reflect on them considering the presentation of the teaching internship practices elaborated and developed by Pataxós, Maxakali, and Xacriabá in the discipline Curricular Internship of the course Intercultural Formation for Indigenous Educators (FIEI – UFMG). This paper proposes to think how indigenous education and its traditional knowledges create integrated world views that are capable of dialoguing with other knowledges and make concepts like sustainability more meaningful.