The Indigenous Education and the Emergence Ethnic in Southern Brazil: An Approach from the State of Santa Catarina

Miguel Ângelo Silva Da Costa,Mirian Carbonera,Cláudio Luiz Orço

doi:10.4236/ce.2015.69088

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Abstract

The condition of social exclusion is a feature among Brazilian indigenous communities. However, the consolidation of indigenous organizations and the provision of specific public policies, including those related to indigenous school education, has contributed to the emergence of ethnic indigenous collective in Brazil. Analyzing this social process in the State of Santa Catarina (Brazil), as well as their relation with the development of indigenous school education in South Brazil is the objective of this article.

Highlights

According to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), headquartered in Copenhagen, it is estimated that, currently, divided at least into 5000 peoples, the global indigenous population exceeds 350 million people (IWGIA, 2011)1
Though the condition of social exclusion is a striking feature among Brazilian indigenous communities, the consonance between creation and consolidation of formal indigenous organizations, as well as provision of specific public politics, including those related to indigenous school education, and has contributed increasingly more contributed to the process of emergence of these ethnic social groups in Brazil
The conception of education is not uniform among these social groups, as noted by Gersem Luciano (2011: p. 72), “[...] the traditional education is no longer able to cope with the current indigenous life, increasingly dependent on national and global life, from the contact and interaction with the surrounding world”

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According to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), headquartered in Copenhagen, it is estimated that, currently, divided at least into 5000 peoples, the global indigenous population exceeds 350 million people (IWGIA, 2011). The Indigenous Education and the Emergence Ethnic in Southern Brazil: An Approach from the State of Santa Catarina. [...] the ethnogenesis was and is an ongoing historical process that reflects the cultural and political dynamic of the past or exterior societies of the development of nation states today. Though the condition of social exclusion is a striking feature among Brazilian indigenous communities, the consonance between creation and consolidation of formal indigenous organizations, as well as provision of specific public politics, including those related to indigenous school education, and has contributed increasingly more contributed to the process of emergence of these ethnic social groups in Brazil. Put into screen the effects of a process that has contributed to the magnification of indigenous social visibility, as their relation to the structural development of differentiated education in the state of Santa Catarina is the purpose of this article.

Demographic Emergence of the Indigenous Population in Santa Catarina

Indigenous Socio-Historical Cartography in Santa Catarina

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