INDIGENOUS PROTAGONISM IN POSTGRADUATE

decolonizing the curriculum and the university space

Abstract

This paper seeks to reflect the presence of indigenous people in graduate school and their contributions to the decolonization of the curriculum and university space, having as reference the experiences lived with indigenous people in postgraduate courses (master and doctorate) in Mato Grosso do Sul and some years of research with the theme. The text shows that face-to-face living with difference has been enriching, because it is based on studies that are marked by the thinking of intellectuals who are guided by the worldview of traditional populations and who transit through different school / academic spaces, and all of this generates the opportunity for the curricula of the Programs to be transversalized by knowledge other than hegemonic and homogeneous, which has given the indigenous peoples and their resistances another visibility, other than colonial (of inferiority, subordination, denial and satanization), all this has also provided the deconstruction of historical preconception, as well as, for everyone, the understanding that the knowledge of difference has been present and must, increasingly, be confirmed as important parts in the construction of the so-called universal knowledge.