Indigenous school education: interculturality and world-view in the revitalization of Xokleng/Laklãnõ language and culture

Abstract

Current paper analyzes the activities and interactivities developed with the Xokleng/Laklãnõ groups that lives on the Laklãnõ Indigenous Land in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, as part of a project funded by the Observatory on Indigenous School Education, CAPES – INEP. The challenges to start the revitalization of the group´s language and culture by schooling are reported. A synthesis of the thousand-year old history of the group, the silencing process and genocide experience are provided. Further, the schooling context with an intercultural and world-vision perspective and its identification as a people capable of discussing the abovementioned challenges are investigated. The theoretical construction is briefly debated with regard to the possibility in supplying indigenous teachers with educational resources to start the autonomy and emancipation process through dissertations focusing the instrumentation and recommendation of actions that would promote the revitalization and the pro-vitalization of the ancestral language, culture and world-vision of this primordial group.