Artes e artesanato na escola indígena Waikarnarse: diálogos com docentes do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Art / crafts is very important for my Akwẽ-Xerente indigenous people, so their learning among us begins in childhood, which led me to conduct this study, from my life experience, how I received the first teaching about art, understanding that my story is that of many other children of my people, many of them today are teachers, who early observe and begin to imitate what the elders and other adults say and do. The art \ craftsmanship we possess must be beautiful / beautiful and utilitarian at the same time, it has not only contemplative character. Indigenous art brings positive benefits to the Akwẽ people, including their own image as an indigenous community. This study initially had bibliographic research and field research, through an interview script applied directly with the teachers, being a total of four, two teachers and two teachers. I also used drawings made by myself and the school children. The teachings of art (and other knowledge) were passed on in Waran, which had its traditional form suppressed and gave way to other learning systems, including the school. The village school to meet the standards of differentiated indigenous education, in tune with the community, regarding respect for culture and tradition, must take into account some criteria, such as those identified in the PPP of the Riozinho village Wakômekwa school, with respect Akwẽ language, culture, tradition and ways of life, ensuring that literacy is in the Akwẽ language, followed by teaching the Portuguese language, and the participation of elders to ensure the transmission of traditional knowledge through orality and observation, while respecting ways of life, the experience with work in the “field of stump”. Other ways of life include activities involving the elder (woman pikõ), specifically for women, where the traditional knowledge of Akwẽ woman will be imparted through orality and observation. Thus, the meeting between the daily life of the community and the school, as a formal learning space, is fundamental to learn about our art, to appropriate it, to take it forward as a synonym of beauty, resistance and existence of indigenous peoples.