Sociology Of The Image: Interculturality From The Guaraní Mbyá Indigenous School

Márcia Luísa Tomazzoni, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Soul; Magali Mendes De Menezes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Soul

Sinopsis

This text is the result of a research carried out between 2018 and 2020, based on the experience of a non-indigenous educator at a Guaraní Mbyá school called Guajayvi, in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Through narratives and reflections, the aim was to map the elements, movements, and processes that emerge from this educator’s daily life, following clues for decolonizing theoretical-pedagogical practices in education. The experience highlighted the importance of adopting a unique way of learning shifting the non-Indigenous perspective from a text-centered view to the images and oral traditions that constitute the Mbyá Guarani school. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s sociology of image of is a reference in this process, which, together with constant dialogue with students from the indigenous community, emerges as a way of understanding and learning the language of research from the images and oral traditions charged with the ancient cosmology of the Guaraní. The reflections aim to convey the Mbyá Guaraní people’s deep awareness of their own history and wisdom, indicating paths for building of a critical interculturality from the indigenous school.

Biografía del autor/a

Márcia Luísa Tomazzoni, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Soul

She has a degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where she currently represents CAPES in the Post-Graduate Program in Education, specifically in the research line of Education, Cultures, and Humanities. She has been an educator in the public education system of Rio Grande do Sul since 2014, and since 2019, she has been working at the Escuela Básica Estatal Indígena Guajayvi (Charqueadas, RS). Her academic research project titled “Movimentos da Guajayvi: narrativas de descolonização desde a escola indígena Mbyá Guarani” is developed from her experience as a non-indigenous educator in collaboration with the Guajayvi indigenous community. The project blends Latin American literature with the realities of the students at the school. Her work is cited in TOMAZZONI, M. L. O pensamento de Rodolfo Kusch: movimentos seminais na América Profunda (2019), where she explores themes of assimilation and decolonization within the context of the Mbyá Guarani indigenous school, with a focus on movements of both absorption and decolonization in education.

Magali Mendes De Menezes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Soul

She holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a Professor and Researcher in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. She also serves as Vice-Director of the School of Education and coordinates the Indigenous Knowledge Association at the School/UFRGS. Additionally, she is a Founding Partner of ASAFTI (Associação Sul-Americana de Filosofia e Teologia Interculturais). Her research areas include interculturality, Latin American philosophy, philosophy of education, and feminist philosophy. Notable works include Direitos Humanos em Debate: educação e marcadores sociais da diferença (2019, Editorial Cirkula) and Direitos Humanos em Debate: educação e marcadores sociais da diferença (2017, Editorial IFIBE), among others.

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Páginas

189-208

Publicado

1 noviembre 2024

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Cómo citar

Tomazzoni, M. L. ., & Mendes De Menezes, M. . (2024). Sociology Of The Image: Interculturality From The Guaraní Mbyá Indigenous School. In J. A. Tasat (Ed.), & C. E. . Pedraza Goyeneche, Pedagogías críticas americanas (pp. 189-208). Sello Editorial UNAD. https://doi.org/10.22490/UNAD.9786287786233.10