Potentialities of Intercultural Education in Aldeia Muã Mimatxi

Abstract

This article sought to problematize data from socio-anthropological research carried out in a Pataxó indigenous community located in the city of Itapecerica-MG, regarding intercultural education. This is qualitative research, which uses literature review, narrative interviews, as well as document analysis as a research method. Based on studies on interculturality, and on a collection of indigenous stories told in the community in question, it was possible to intertwine the voices of the indigenous community, noting that intercultural education is a way of legitimizing the rights of indigenous minorities and a way of strengthening their cultural traditions. Through indigenous stories and other educational tools used in the school of the Muã Mimatxi village, the indigenous community shows itself as an agent aware of its own education, in constant dialogue with other knowledge and traditions, in order to build its projects for the future.