Indigenous school education from the perspective of interculturality Educação escolar indígena na perspectiva da interculturalidade

Abstract

This article reflects the Indigenous School Education in Brazil, going through several historical moments. The school, understood as an important space for the adaptation of indigenous peoples to the dominant culture, has undergone a profound transformation based on the 1988 Constitution and the struggle of indigenous peoples who, at that time, demanded respect and guarantee of rights. In this way, the school becomes, for indigenous peoples, a tool for struggle. From the theoretical deepening around the different understandings of interculturality, we analyze how interculturality can be absorbed by the hegemonic system, configuring itself in this sense, as a functional interculturality. Indigenous school education in Brazil struggles for another perspective, for a critical interculturality capable of promoting a true intercultural dialogue.