ETHNOMATHEMATICS AND DECOLONIALITY IN RESEARCH OF INDIGENOUS STUDENTS IN THE UNIR INTERCULTURAL BASIC EDUCATION DEGREE (2015-2018)
Ethnomathematics. Decolonial thinking. Interculturality. Indigenous (school) education.
This dissertation aims to identify assumptions of ethnomathematics and decoloniality in the discourses of indigenous students at UNIR, in their Final Course Papers (TCC), as well as to analyze whether such discourses are promoting a functional or critical intercultural education. To achieve the proposed objective, methodologically, research was used with a qualitative approach (GARNICA, 2004; MINAYO, 2007), bibliographical (FACHIN, 2006; GIL, 2002; MARCONI E LAKATOS, 2003) and for data analysis, the technique Textual Discursive Analysis – ATD (MORAES, 2003; FACHIN MORAES, 2012; MORAES AND GALIAZZI, 2006). The theoretical foundation is based on authors such as Garnica e Souza (Mathematics Education), D'Ambrosio and Ferreira (Ethnomathematics), Quijano and Mignolo (Decoloniality) and Walsh, Candau and Russell (Indigenous School Education and Interculturality). In the survey of bibliographic material, 9 TCCs were selected, who fulfilled the criterion of being in ethnomathematics in the qualification “Natural Sciences and Intercultural Mathematics”, one of the four qualifications of the Course. Among the results obtained so far, the first is that ethnomathematics and decoloniality converge in many of their assumptions and that they, too, are very consistent with the assumptions of a Critical Interculturality. The second is that the assumptions of the two theories (ethnomathematics and decoloniality) appear explicitly and/or implicitly in the discourses of the indigenous students under analysis. Continuing the analysis, we will verify whether such discourses are promoting a functional or critical intercultural education.