Cruzamento de mundos em espaços educativos : a cosmologia kanhgág e o "estar-sendo" na convivência intercultural.

Abstract

Intercultural coexistence has been an issue at universities, considering the entry of students who represent the Brazilian people ethnic diversity. Within this context, the presence / absence of cultural interchange, especially towards the entry and permanence of indigenous scholars at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), was unveiled over the actions and reflections that led, until the end of this study, to the emergence of four non-hierarchical and some concurrent layers. As the investigation and coexistence increased, especially with the research partner, the intellectual kanhgág Onorio Isaías de Moura, matter-spirit layers have risen and been replaced, following the rhythm of movements caused by synchronicity and causality. In a spiral form, the first layer comprises the institutional records of UNIPAMPA on the entry and permanence of indigenous scholars. These are public information, which can be accessed in institutional sites on the web or consulted in the sector in charge of affirmative actions, indicating how the presence / absence of indigenous scholars is constituted. Regarding the second layer, it is considered the power of the cultural encounters, the game of being-and-belonging that surrounds the environment of academic objectivity; rational and symbolic aspects moving into advances and tension. Thus, the emergence of “researching with” arises, being built within the process of coexistence, testing the limits, and even surpassing them, reflecting, reconsidering concepts, and reformulating actions, from which some are materialized in the third layer, when the research partner kanhgág is included in the Graduate Program in Education (Unisc). The fourth layer ends with research time, emerging from the indigenous presence and protagonism at the University. At this point, several reflections are possible, such as assuming that indigenous scholars are protagonists at the higher education level, participating in research, teaching and extension, as well as questioning the limits and possibilities for intercultural collaboration academically found and provided. Resulting from the productions of meaning regarding coexistence, the layers are crossed by the myth surrounding the origin of the kanhgág ethnicity and by the art that reverberates from it. This study is theoretically based on indigenous intellectuals, mainly ethnic kanhgág, and non-indigenous, dialoguing and interacting through their methodologies. Emerging from this dialogue, the Vãfy Methodology represents the intercultural relationship and collaboration related to the actions planned and carried out along the research period. The power of good encounters and intercultural collaboration, which affect the deepest aspects of human condition, by reencountering our ancestral roots, has resulted in symbolic-sensitive learning for the researchers and for the target audience involved in the proposed actions.