Paper
Indigenous Tutorial Education Program (PET) towards decolonial thinking and the construction of autonomy: The case of UFPB, Northeast-Brazil
presenters
cintia cinara morais borges soares
Nationality: Brasil
Residence: Brasil
Presence:Online
alícia ferreira gonçalves
Nationality: Brazil
Residence: Brazil
Ufpb
Presence:Online
maristela oliveira de andrade
Nationality: Brasil
Residence: Brasil
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Presence:Online
Keywords:
Indigenous tutorial program, UFPB, decolonial anthropology
Abstract:
In this paper we present the case of Indigenous PET institutionalized at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) located in the Northeast of Brazil. Our main argument is that the Indigenous PET is becoming a space for the visibility of indigenous culture from a decolonial perspective, with the potential to prepare graduates from various disciplinary areas for their autonomy. The program adds to the set of public policies aimed at access and permanency of indigenous students in higher education and has its origins in the institution of the Special Training Program (PET), through tutorial learning groups of a collective and interdisciplinary nature. It seeks to contribute to raising the quality of academic training for undergraduate students, with groups composed of scholarship students and a tutor. In 2013, after reformulation, the PET began to contemplate the dimension of correcting social inequalities, welcoming culturally diverse groups into the university environment, particularly indigenous people and quilombolas.
In conjunction with the Connections of Knowledges Project, the Indigenous PET aims to be a space for exchanging knowledge between communities and the university, contributing to the social inclusion of the youths from rural, quilombola, indigenous and vulnerable communities. The proposal to create the Indigenous PET at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) was approved in the public notice 09/2010 – MEC; the group operates in the campus IV of UFPB, in the municipality of Rio Tinto, in Potiguara indigenous territory. The projects carried out by the UFPB Indigenous PET focus on the motivation of indigenous students (high school) to access higher education, with research focused on the management of ethnic territory and the execution of workshops/exhibitions about Potiguara indigenous culture. The history of the group's actions, the participation in events promoted on the campus IV of UFPB, an interview with the tutor of the program at