Política educacional no Brasil: um olhar sobre a educação indígena no Brasil

Abstract

This final paper of the professional master’s program presented here is a bibliographic study and its goal is to analyze public education from the perspective of inclusion of indigenous people. Public education has been a widely discussed theme among various scholars in the educational area. The intent is to gain proximity to this theoretical universe to comprehend the fundamental topics of democratic education which respects the cultural and religious diversity of all the Brazilians. Thus, one seeks to start with a general vision of the historical aspects, considering the situation around the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the Brazilian educational process. The concept of inclusion is present throughout the paper. It remits us to a more penetrating sense when dealing with the inclusion of indigenous peoples in Brazilian public education, since it requires processes which go beyond the simple attempt at social integration, involving itself with the need to recognize them in their own identities as first nation peoples. Therefore, we will ask ourselves how the indigenous peoples are inserted in public education, considering their cultural and religious diversity. And this happens as they exert their citizenship in the formal and informal spaces of education.