A história de vida de Tiago Xukuru e a ecologia dos saberes

Abstract

This work presents the life story of an indigenous Xukuru, the first indigenous Secretary of Education of Pesqueira/PE, who through Education changed his reality. In view of the various debates that authors such as Ailton Krenak (2019), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2004), Alberto Acosta (2016) bring, regarding the need for the Academy to dialogue with the diverse knowledge that over the years has been inferiorized by colonial practices, from this arises the idea of Ecology of Knowledge, being a concept of extreme importance for the dialogicity and appreciation of cultures, peoples and traditions, which must be brought to light, as it helps in the advancement of social struggles of subalterns for recognition and appreciation of their knowledge. The concept of Good Living is also discussed, whose main objective is to ensure that society and nature live in harmony, such as, for example, the way traditional people live, where their knowledge is closely linked to the environment in which they are located. inserted. Given this, this research attempts to respond and investigate the impact that Higher Education brought to your life as an indigenous student and consequently to your community, that is, what advances did your entry and then training bring to the lives of your people? And, on the other hand, what contributions has your knowledge from Xukuru life contributed and is contributing to academia? The general objective aims to understand the ecology of knowledge in the life story of a Xukuru indigenous person. Methodologically, the inductive method is used, which starts from a smaller premise to a larger premise, with a qualitative approach, which starts from individuals and the complexity of the environment they are inserted in and their experiences, which cannot be reduced to numbers, using the type of research defined as descriptive and exploratory. We used life history as data collection, which uses as the main source the point of view of the subject being researched, and bibliographical research. The universe to be researched is the Xukuru people, located in the countryside of Pernambuco, in the city of Pesqueira and the subject is the indigenous Thiago Torres de Lima, master in Contemporary Education from the Federal University of Pernambuco - Campus do Agreste -, as well as a member of the Commission of Indigenous Teachers of Pernambuco and president of the Indigenous School Council. As a result, it can be defined that Thiago Torres de Lima's life story contributed to a possible decolonization of the Academy, with the interculturalization of knowledge, and putting into practice the conception of Good Living and the concept of Ecology of Knowledge.