Educação escolar indígena na Ilha da Cotinga em Paranaguá e sua relação com a liberdade cultural - sócio religiosa - do povo Mbyá-Guarani

Abstract

This thesis discusses the education of the Mbyá-Guarani people of the island Cotinga in Paranagua, analyzing how the elements of their religiosity influence or not in their social organization, consequently pointing perspectives for their daily lives. We have analyzed the indigenous school education and indigenous education, to understand their similarities and differences and their influence on cultural, social and religious freedom of the Mbyá-Guarani community. Indigenous education aims towards the collective, it offers means to the individual be held as a person and to be profitable for the life of community. This traditional pedagogical indigenous action is based on the relations system, characterized by the language, economics, religion and kinship; these language is the most important, extensive and complex being through him that the tradition of the people is taught and learnt. The researched showed that the way of life of the Mbyá-Guarani people, is founded on the knowledge of their religious tradition, as stated that the Mbyá-Guarani people came from a spiritual world where lived with Nhanderu and that life on earth may also be a reunion of people who once lived together, so Jeguatá, the act of walking together is so important and practiced by them. This mobility creates a issue with land possesion, since one of the government's criteria for recognizing indigenous land is to be established in a territory. The cacique recognizes the importance of formal non-indigenous education for his people, as a means to better understand the non-indigenous culture and create a better strategy for negotiating with non-indigenous institutions and to create a more peaceful coexistence with them