O Instituto Insikiran de Formação Superior Indígena da UFRR no contexto de lutas dos povos originários por educação escolar

Abstract

The contemporary indigenous movement in Brazil in the context of dispute for their territories by invading groups, their struggle for public policies of specific, differentiated and intercultural education which overcomes the catechizing and integrationist paradigm, interculturality as a strategy of this struggle and the current conditions related to access of higher education by indigenous people are addressed in the dissertation. The creation in 2001 of the Insikiran Institute of Indigenous Higher Education, as a political-academic unit of the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), represents ruptures at several levels: a) political-social, as it represents an institution structured by social movements, from bottom to top up; b) university management, by adopting the principle of inter-institutionality, with direct participation of society in university deliberation instances; and c) pedagogical: through innovation in curricula and teaching methods that meet the needs of the target communities, which makes the teaching-learning process a meaningful experience. This dissertation lends itself to reflection on the conquests obtained so far and the conditions of possibility and limitations that the indigenous movement has as challenges for the future.