Reflexões sobre a educação escolar indígena na comunidade Wassu-Cocal/Alagoas

Abstract

his article aims to present reflections of the schooling process in the Wassu-Cocal community. The work is the result of a qualitative bibliographic and documentary research on the standardization and consequently creation of schools in this indigenous territory. In this direction, we seek to build arguments and problematizations in order to understand the legal paths for the implementation of Indigenous School Education in the investigated community. To this end, we explain the legal milestones in which Indigenous School Education is supported and that support the maintenance, functioning and existence of differentiated education at the national level, and more specifically, indigenous school education in Alagoas, with particularly in the Wassu-Cocal Ethnoterritory. We think that addressing the theme implies considering and recognizing the advances and setbacks in Indigenous Education in Alagoas, as well as the epistemologies practiced, pedagogical knowledge and other cosmologies that is the basis of its praxis in Indigenous School Education. As a theoretical contribution we use Alberti (2013); Edson Silva (2007); Ferreira (2013); Gomes (2012); Junior (2013), among others. We conclude by reaffirming indigenous resistance stithers in relation to school knowledge, with autonomy and aware of what they want.