May 23, 2022

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Marcela Leiros – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – Teachers and indigenous leaders will meet in Manaus next Friday, 27, to discuss Law No. 2.781 of September 16, 2016, which created the Municipal Indigenous School. The meeting will take place from 8 am to 12 noon, in the Division of Professional Development Of Magistério, on Avenida Maceió, Centro-Sul zone of the Amazon capital, and will be open to the interested public.

The meeting is expected to be attended by indigenous teachers from 23 indigenous mother tongue and traditional knowledge areas in Manaus. Representatives from the Municipal Education Secretary (Semed), the Manaus City Council (CMM), the Coordination of Indigenous Peoples of Manaus and Surroundings (Copime), the Amazon Indigenous School and Health Education Forum (Foreeia), the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), the Municipal Attorney General (PGM), the National Indian Foundation (Funai), among others, have also been invited.

“The idea is to draw up a document, which could be a decree or an ordinance, within the secretariat to be executed, both as a graduation course for indigenous teachers, which is governed by law, and also career time, public competition and other things. This will be elaborated in the meeting”, said the representative of the indigenous teachers of the Study Space of the Mother Tongue and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge of the Municipality of Manaus, indigenous teacher and president of the Karapanã Indigenous Association (Assika).

The law of the Municipal Indigenous School

Law Nº 2.781 provides for the creation of the category of Municipal Indigenous School, the positions of indigenous teaching professionals, the regularization of spaces for studying the mother tongue and traditional indigenous knowledge in the municipal school system.

The proposal of the Municipal Indigenous School is to compose, in a specific way, the municipal education network of Semed, “with guiding principles of interculturality, bilingualism, multilingualism, specificity, differentiation and communitarianism, fundamentals of indigenous school education, with differentiated teaching methods, located in indigenous communities, without discrimination due to their location”.

The Space for the Study of Mother Tongue and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge should be “a bilingual learning space, for the transmission of traditional knowledge, based on the affirmation, appreciation and strengthening of mother tongues and cultural identities of indigenous peoples of Manaus, operationalized as a room attached to a municipal indigenous school, ensuring pedagogical autonomy.