Laje Velho Village, Oro Waram youth: reality and challenges of education in an indigenous context

Abstract

This work is the result of part of a Master's Dissertation in Geography defended within the scope of the Federal University of Rondônia Foundation, in which issues related to the teaching and learning process with the indigenous youth of the Oro Waram native people of the Lage Velho Village, belonging to the Igarapé Lage Indigenous Land, located in the municipalities of Guajará-Mirim and Nova Mamoré, were addressed. State of Rondônia, located on the border with the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The objective of this work is to reflect on the experiences practiced by young Oro Waram indigenous people in the age group between 13 and 18 years old, a decisive phase for the construction of the being as a social subject, in their descriptions of the lived reality that are the bases for the discussions addressed in the text. The construction of the work was based on the experiences and coexistence of the researchers with the indigenous collectivity of the Lage Velho Village, through phenomenological approaches, with free interactions and observations with the indigenous students, both in the school environment and in daily activities outside the classrooms, so that it was constituted as participatory research. Thus, the results obtained were collected without the constraints of structured interviews but were materialized from the dialogues and interactions with this student audience.