Cultural acclimatization in Rural Education at FURG: permanence as a right among indigenous and quilombola students

Abstract

This study analyzes the material culture produced by indigenous and quilombola students at the Federal University of Rio Grande – FURG within the scope of the Pedagogical Support Program for Indigenous and Quilombola Students – APEIQ, promoted by the Pro-Rectory of Student Affairs – PRAE. The objective of this study is to understand the relationships between material culture and the forms of representation of being and etnicity at the university, particularly with regard to the maintenance of their ways of life in the academic space. The method applied was the dialogical heritage education in which reflections on cultural paradigms promote the teaching of non-formal and informal History, in a democratic and participatory way. Activities were identified at FURG that seek to embrace traditional ways of life. The stencil, painting, ceramics and crafts workshops produced significant material culture of an ethnological matrix that represent the permanence of indigenous and quilombola ways of life in the academic space. This cultural material was classified, analyzed and understood as a way for ethnic groups to domesticate the academic space, making it culturally familiar.

Keywords

• heritage education
• history teaching
• pedagogical monitoring.