Memórias de Alfabetização Paiter Surui

reflexões sobre o ingresso na cultura escrita

Abstract

The studies on Indigenous Peoples and the world of written culture constitute the central interest of this reflection that discusses the partial results of the Project "Intercultural Literacy in indigenous schools of Rondônia" that is underway. This text analyzes the literacy carried out at the beginning of the 21st century in two indigenous villages of the Amazon from the perspective of students of the Paiter Suruí People through narrative research. An ethnic society located in the Sete de September Indigenous Land, organized in the following clans: Gameb, Gapgir, Kaban and Makor. They are speakers of the Paiter language, Tupi Mondé family. It was possible to understand that the initial learning of reading and writing carried out in the Paiter territory in the 2000s incorporated the cultural changes resulting from the post-contact situation. The pedagogical work occurred in indigenous schools maintained by the state government, through indigenous and non-indigenous teachers, with empirical didactic methodology, influence of the inheritance of the booklets. Articulating the knowledge of the experience of indigenous students to the theoretical conceptions about literacy represents a propitious occasion for the interweaving of different knowledge and in this way it is possible to activate important devices that attribute meaning to knowledge intercultural.