Magistério Indígena: a construção identitária do docente no curso de formação inicial

Abstract

This research presents the analysis of memorials of indigenous teachers belonging to three ethnic groups: Wapichana, WaiWai and Ingarikó, all mother tongue speakers, who, throughout their schooling, experienced many challenges and difficulties, always trying to remedy them. Throughout their childhood and adolescence, they lived and studied in the indigenous communities in which they were born and grew up, thus experiencing the struggle of their people. In this sense, this article deals with those identity paths traced by the subjects evidenced here, where they present an immutable identity, which, over time, undergoes changes. Their behavior is also outlined in relation to their participation in the struggles and movements in relation to the search for the conquest of their rights, especially in the education and demarcation of indigenous lands. The subjects of this research are three indigenous teachers: two male and one female. They are teachers from the early years of elementary school in indigenous schools located in their communities. As a teenager, they had to leave their community to attend high school in urban schools, living with other cultures and languages. They had to adapt, leaving aside the traces of their mother tongue, because, for them, language is a determining part of a people's culture and identity. It is worth mentioning that, in the course of the theoretical assumptions, a comparison is presented between the three analyzed memorials. Thus, the work is based on Hall, Rajagopalan, Cavalcanti, Silva, among other authors who seek to discuss Identity and Language, but focusing on the subject's identity. Thus, this research has as methodological outline the comparative analysis of Descriptive Memorial, narrating the stages of the personal and professional life of indigenous teachers. I emphasize that these memorials are part of the course conclusion work of the Indigenous Teaching Project, with the presentation of the month of August 2018.