2) The meanings assigned to the intercultural education in the framework of the indigenous school

Academic Interviwed

Speak of the Academic

Academic 01

“The school we have today has been imposed to us indigenous. This is not the school that we had expected, it came ready, but suitable to changes and, we as indigenous academics and future teachers, are aware that it needs to have distinctive characteristics and traditional education for indigenous communities [...]. It is perceived as essential the creating a pedagogical propose based on their own indigenous learning processes as well as their way of seeing the world.”

Academic 06

“A school that meets the reality of the community, that fits their needs and is differentiated. Differentiated with regard to autonomy as a right of the study of culture, customs, and who seeks the interaction of scientific knowledge and the knowledge of the culture.”

Academic 12

“The group of academics of this course has the entirely vision of the rescue of the indigenous traditions, since we have learned to value our culture and fight for it.”

Academic 24

“Indigenous education is challenging and as integral part of this process, makes us feel like multipliers and everything we plant today will sow tomorrow. We are indigenous people who want to be heard, respected, and get valued our culture.”

Academic 18

“The necessary change is to have more qualified teachers in Indigenous schools. More support by the government on the infrastructure, materials and teaching quality for the qualifications of professionals, and when I say professional, I mean everyone, not just teachers.”

Academic 04

“Respect for the specific calendar on indigenous schools, more trained professionals, responsibles and with school engagement. An expansion of the number of classes of Kaingang teaching language.”

Academic 02

“Look, I always says that I grew up related to knowledge and matured my ideas and goals, and today I can say I’m on the right track, I want to be a teacher to help in the fight to rescue the culture of our people.”

Academic 07

“The degree course came to contributeto my development as a teacher and also to teach us how to insert content related to our culture in the subjects worked in school, while teaching the universal learning.”

Academic 03

“It has helped a lot, since it challenges us to think about teaching from the culture and the quest for scientific knowledge. Every teacher must always be improving, seeking new information. The Indian degree is challenging, it makes us feel that we can go far beyond what we want.”