Title

Assessment of the indigenous and quilombola school situation in Paraná

Abstract

To evaluate the school situation of indigenous and quilombola communities in the state of Paraná, based on an extensive questionnaire created and applied by the team of the Operational Support Center of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraná (CAOP, MPPR) to all public and private municipal and state schools in the state, with a view to assessing compliance with federal laws 10.639 and 11.645. Based on the answers given by schools classified as indigenous and quilombola (because they are located in their territories) and regular schools that serve indigenous and quilombola students in the vicinity of their territories, complemented by brief interviews conducted by telephone or whatsapp with community leaders, this research aims to provide a detailed overview of the physical and pedagogical situation of these school units, the situation of their teaching staff and their curricular initiatives, their ways of addressing and addressing situations of discrimination and racism.

Team

Maurício Arruti (Coordinator), Claudia Cristina Hoffmann (Coordinator, CAOP of MPPR), Giulia Manfredini (Undergraduate), Flávia Longo (PhD in Demography/Unicamp) and Cassius Cruz. 

Financing

Operational Support Center of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraná (CAOP do MPPR)

Title

Indigenous people at university: a comparative look at institutional programs and student experiences

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the various productive effects that emerge from the conflicts of perspective established by the entry of indigenous students into universities. In this sense, we take the University as a "Contact Zone", that is, a type of social space "where cultures meet, clash and struggle with each other, often in the context of highly asymmetrical power relations, such as colonialism, slavery, or arising from them" (Pratt, 1991: 34). In this sense, the research aims to investigate the challenges posed to the university community by the entry of indigenous students, as well as the responses that have been given to them, both by the university (management, faculty and community) and by the young indigenous people who enter it, their communities of origin and their emerging political-intellectual organizations. Our research strategy implies a comparative stance developed at three scales. At the macro, national level, we will mobilize official data from the Higher Education Census (CenSup) produced by INEP. At the meso, institutional level, we will mobilize the documents made available by (and about) a selected set of HEIs that have adopted differentiated mechanisms for the access of indigenous students, complemented by interviews with managers of these HEIs. Finally, at the micro level, we will mobilize a quali-quanti strategy to approach the experience of indigenous students at UNICAMP and two other institutions in São Paulo (one federal public and one state private), through a broad survey and a restricted set of in-depth interviews.

Team

Maurício Arruti (coordinator), Chantal Medaets (associate researcher), Juliana Jodas (associate researcher, PhD in Anthropology/ Unicamp), Flávia Longo (associate researcher, PhD in Demography/ Unicamp), Marcela Torres (IC Fellow, Undergraduate Social Sciences), Rafael Rocha Novais (IC Fellow, Undergraduate Social Sciences).

Financing

FAEPEX/ Unicamp