Mapeamento das produções acadêmicas que relacionam matemática e educação escolar indígena: uma análise das pesquisas disponíveis na biblioteca digital brasileira de teses e dissertações.

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to characterize the academic works produced in national stricto sensu postgraduate programs that relate the themes of “Mathematics” and “Indigenous School Education” based on the database of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). As a theoretical framework, we present a context of the history of Indigenous School Education in Brazil regarding the main events and aspects of Ethnomathematics based on the ideas of the Brazilian Ubiratan D’Ambrósio. The methodological procedures began with the collection of data, followed by its organization and categorization with the help of the construction of a spreadsheet, and finally, the analysis of the selected researches was carried out. Among the results of this research, the following stand out: the first academic production found is an academic master’s dissertation published in 1995; although the themes are fertile fields for conducting research, it was only after 2006 that the number of productions obtained a reasonable increase; Among the five Brazilian geographic regions, the Southeast region concentrates the largest number of published works; in relation to the level of academic qualification, more than fifty percent of the research corresponds to academic master's dissertations; aiming to categorize the research in relation to the main focus, from the analysis, three focuses stood out: Ethnomathematics, Teacher training, and Pedagogical practice. With the analysis, it was concluded that the majority of the research has a focus exclusively on Ethnomathematics.