The Paiter Suruí protagonism in the indigenous educational scenario: elements for a possible intercultural dialogue

Abstract

The article proposes to discuss the changes of perception that the indigenous people Paiter Suruí obtained from the process of economic development in the States of Rondônia and Mato Grosso (both in the Brazilian Legal Amazon) from their experience and the establishment of relations with the non-indigenous world in the use of the economic value of their territory; that is, using dialogue techniques between two knowledges: the scientific one and their own. The development of the Amazon has contributed significantly to the change in economic stability of ethnicity, with influence over the marketing of wood, vegetables, and mineral extraction of agribusiness and the introduction of new cultural, social and political values. Given this, the return of certain practices observed in the indigenous ways of life before the contact is almost impossible; however, due to this encounter, it is necessary to create a dialogue. In thus, we intend to discuss the unfolding that socio-economic activities have brought to these peoples, as well as initiatives and perspectives related to projects that refer to the exercise of practices and of ethnics knowledge, as essential tools for the process of cultural permanence and physical and territorial survival– education for the Paiter Suruí is one of the strategic pillars that will allow the acquisition of new knowledge, the expansion of their rights and the achievement of full citizenship.