Indigenous formal education within the scope of Professional and Technological Education (EPT)

Abstract

Education can mean the link between non-Indigenous people and indigenous people. Law 12,711/2012 deals with the obligation to reserve places in federal universities and institutes, combining public school attendance with income and ethnicity. The construction of professional education courses integrated with indigenous school education must consider the impasses, as well as the potentialities, in the relationship between indigenous knowledge and practices and technical-scientific knowledge, as well as the possibility that indigenous peoples will actually enroll in them your own perspective. The aim of this paper is to discuss formal indigenous education within the scope of Professional and Technological Education (EPT)[6]. For that, a bibliographic research was carried out in Portuguese in databases. Education seems to be the path for the integration of indigenous people and their formation for their own benefit and that of the community. The policy of quotas or affirmative actions is an attempt to reduce the social distance when it comes to access to places in education, including technical ones. The existence of centers of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous studies seems, albeit timidly, to contribute to research and dissemination on ethnic-racial identities and relations, aiming at reducing socio-educational distance and differences within institutions. Despite the preparation, even if under construction, of institutions to serve a diverse public such as indigenous people, their access is still considered small.