Different Indigenous educational practices in Brazil

Abstract

This article discusses different educational practices of some indigenous peoples in Brazil, which develop through the daily activities of children and young people with adults, related to work, stories, myths, and rites of passage for boys and girls into adulthood. The objective of this work is to answer the following question: what are the objectives, values, and learning experiences present in these practices, and how do they contribute to the maintenance of collective life in the village/community and the perpetuation of the people? A bibliographic survey was conducted on recent productions about educational practices of indigenous peoples from different regions of Brazil, highlighting categories that describe the practices and allow for an understanding of the meanings behind the different pedagogies. In this sense, the study showed that care is taken with educational practices, since the preservation of traditional knowledge and values ​​that establish conditions for relationships and interactions, subsistence techniques, regulate norms and principles of collective conduct, and guarantee the maintenance and perpetuation of traditional indigenous peoples depends on them.