ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS SCHOOLS: REFLECTIONS FROM AN ONGOING ACTION

Abstract

The paper discusses potentialities and challenges of the implementation of the Law 11.645/2008, which establishes the inclusion of the mandatory theme Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture in the guidelines and bases of Brazilian national education. To focus on the topic, it starts by describing a series of actions developed in the context of a dialogue between Indigenous and nonindigenous schools and academia in the State of S & atilde;o Paulo and involving Indigenous and nonindigenous teachers. The thesis is that these actions highlight the importance of developing strategies based on a dialogue between the Indigenous epistemological proposals and the non-Indigenous ones as a constructive and promising suggestion for future similar initiatives in the direction of a more plural pedagogical environment.