Da aldeia para a universidade: a trajetória e a permanência dos/as acadêmicos/as indígenas Xukuru do Ororubá no IFPE campus Pesqueira

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the academic presence of indigenous university students belonging to ethnicgroups Xukuru do Ororubá in the higher education courses of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco, campus Pesqueira, considering their trajectories of formation in their territories of origin and their presence in the University, with a view to evaluating the Affirmative Actions developed within the institution with a focus on the access and permanence of these subjects in Higher Education. From this bias, the research developed in a search to understand how this indigenous presence at the University could result in impacts for the Xukuru people of Ororubá, for the Educational Institution and for the university students themselves. In recent years, the number of indigenous populations that access higher education has become increasingly expressive, reaffirming this space of academia as a strategic place for the formation and strengthening of these peoples. Aware of this increase in ethnic-racial diversity in the composition of the public of university students in Brazil, we understand as necessary a reflexive study about this phenomenon, from the perspective of understanding how these indigenous university students access this space of knowledge production and how this formative process reverberates in the life trajectories of these subjects, their communities of origin and also in the University itself. The research is qualitative in nature and was constructed from the reflections of the following interlocutors, University Students Xukuru do Ororubá, Professor of the Council of Teachers Xukuru do Ororubá - COPIXO and servers of IFPE campus Pesqueira and Rectory, about the environment researched, IFPE pesqueira campus. The theoretical approaches used are decolonial, because we recognize scientific research in the human sciences as strategic and political instruments, anchored in a social justice bias that intends to give visibility to peoples and social projects silenced by Eurocentrism. The research was designed from a chronological cycle, in which a priori sought to understand the entire restructuring process of IFPE Pesqueira Campus for the arrival of the university students/indigenous to the institution, then a look was launched on the COPIXO in order to understand how the Xukuru Indigenous School Education of Ororubá impacts on the access of xukurus to higher education and ended with the eyes of the students about the ser indigenous university. We confirm that the indigenous presence in the university reverberates in real possibilities to establish an interepistemological and interscientific dialogue in these spaces of formal education.