https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-3234; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2077300677497872; ALVES, Shyrley de Almeida
Resumo:
This study is linked to the research line Psychology, Education and Society, of the PostGraduation Program in Psychology (PPGPSI), of the Federal University of Rondônia
Foundation (UNIR), and aims to analyze aspects of the schooling trajectory of indigenous
women in the Intercultural Basic Education course at UNIR, Ji-Paraná campus. The
specific objectives are: a) to historiograph implantation and implementation the process
of the Degree Course in Intercultural Basic Education at the UNIR in Ji-Paraná; b) to
identify the course's advances and challenges; c) to describe how the indigenous students
evaluate their schooling trajectory; d) to survey the academic experiences of the
indigenous women enrolled in the course. The study is structured from the theoretical
orientations of coloniality/decoloniality and critical interculturality scholars. The
methodology is based on documentary, bibliographical and narrative research. A
documentary analysis was carried out, consulting the public edicts of the selection
processes for students from 2009 to 2019, as well as a survey of quantitative data from
requests forwarded by the Electronic System of the Citizen Information Service (e-SIC),
and also a narrative interview with three female students and one female professor of the
course. Among the raised challenges, it is possible to infer that, even 12 years after the
creation of the course, the Department of Intercultural Education (DEINTER) is faced
with the problem of welcoming indigenous mothers and children at the university.
Through the narratives, it was possible to identify that it is urgent to create a space to
meet the specific needs of women, academics, and indigenous mothers. It was also
identified that mothers, for lack of options, leave their children in the village in the care
of relatives and live with an uncommon distance, not experienced by their indigenous
ancestry. The challenge faced is still the permanence of these students in the university
space, in remote teaching, a difficulty that was aggravated during the Covid-19 pandemic
by the lack of internet and energy in the villages.