Indigenous and traditional people in theses and dissertations in the Legal Amazon: issues of education, law and teacher training

Abstract

In the work, we address the issue: how indigenous peoples and traditional populations are addressed in theses and dissertations produced in stricto sensu postgraduate programs, within the scope of the Legal Amazon. It is a research on the State of Knowledge, of a qualitative nature, which worked with a sample of 70 works. The period analyzed is 2010-2022. The article is a product of “Research in Education in the Amazon: history, politics, teacher training and cultural diversity”, which is part of the National Academic Cooperation Program (Procad) and which seeks to understand and identify how education in the Amazon is configured in its contexts. Historical and political contexts, as well as the dimensions of teacher training and its relationship with cultural diversity. In the sample, we identified in theses and dissertations a growing interest in research - especially in recent years - in better understanding indigenous issues and traditional populations, in terms of better understanding these cultures, knowledge, resistance and training of specific teachers. Although still incipient, the research analyzed in this article allows us to raise the hypothesis that this interest is the result of the greater presence of indigenous, quilombola, riverside teachers, among other subjects, in postgraduate courses, which has been transforming, even though still slowly, the spaces of knowledge production, awakening the interest of programs and challenging universities to rethink the field of teacher training, especially in the Amazon, in order to build a better dialogue with other cultures and knowledge, causing fractures in the present colonizing views in the region.