INVISIBLE MAPS, PRESENT BODIES: INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND (RE)EXISTENCE IN URBAN SCHOOL EDUCATION
Indigenous School Education; Indigenous Children; Intercultural Education; Indigenous Epistemologies.
The research investigates the context of indigenous school education in the Federal District (DF), analyzing the experiences of indigenous children in urban public schools based on the notion of a Multilocal Indigenous Educational Territory. The aim is to understand how these students experience the school environment and how the school deals with interculturality and the challenges imposed by the coloniality of knowledge. The research articulates contributions from various authors, seeking an approach that values indigenous epistemologies and children's agency. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative and ethnographic approach, combining documentary research, bibliographic analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with students, teachers and school managers. Based on an analysis of data from the EducaCenso 2022, an uneven distribution of indigenous students in schools in the Federal District was identified, with a higher concentration in certain regions and a significant high school dropout rate. Given this scenario, the central question of the research is: in what way do urban schools operate as epistemic frontiers in which indigenous ways of existing and learning are crossed, tensioned or silenced, especially in contexts marked by the absence of intercultural curricula and the lack of teacher preparation to deal with historical and epistemological inequalities?