In search of a dialogue between two distinct forms of mathematical knowledge / Em busca do diálogo entre duas formas distintas de conhecimentos matemáticos

Aparecida Augusta da Silva

Despite the fact that Brazilian Indigenous Peoples have long fought for appropriate schooling, it was only with the promulgation of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 that Indigenous School Education acquired the status of a public policy in the country, and since then there has been a significant increase in the number of educators engaged in that matter, especially as regards the formation of indigenous teachers. However, a preliminary question that arises is to how to accomplish a differentiated work given that little is known about the more than 200 ethnic groups in Brazil. Besides that, we have, on the one hand, schools provided with a knowledge often established by national parameters; writing ability having a central role; the teacher, in general, being unknown to the group; school environment radically different from living place. On the other side, there is a culture in which know how, myths and history are tightly interrelated; knowledge, often transmitted by an older member of the group, is done orally or through daily know how; the classroom is their own house or the forest itself. In this sense, the present work, carried out in an educational process with teachers from the Gavião ethnic group, in Rondônia, aimed, through dialogues, to devise ways of establishing interactions among different forms of knowledge related to school and indigenous know how as well, focusing especially on Mathematics. In order to do that, two courses were given in which indigenous constructions were taken as the moving power of the debates. Such discussions gave rise to stories, myths and know how as well as some other aspects relevant to the groups culture, as yet unknown even to the indigenous teachers themselves. Concerning mathematical aspects, the indigenous teachers, with the aid of mathematical modeling tools, were able to decode a know how present in the construction of the traditional maloca, and thus giving meaning to a knowledge that made no sense to the group until then. The research was carried out with a qualitative methodology of work, having an ethnographic character, with historical and anthropological aspects, Ethnomathematics being its main theoretical framework.

In search of a dialogue between two distinct forms of mathematical knowledge / Em busca do diálogo entre duas formas distintas de conhecimentos matemáticos

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