(DES) ENCONTROS NO AMBIENTE ESCOLAR: XAKRIABÁS NO INSTITUTO FEDERAL GOIANO CÂMPUS URUTAÍ

Abstract

The school environment is by nature a heterogeneous space, constitutes intergroup relationships and encounters, at various times these relationships transform this environment into a space marked by conflicts. Nowadays it is not uncommon, within the school environment, hate speech, prejudice, racism and xenophobia, in this space that should be learning, inclusion, debate and acceptance. Related to these issues this work has as its theme to understand the dynamics of interethnic and cultural relations within the school environment. Based on situations arising from these intergroup interactions, the work aims to understand how the

interethnic relationships of two groups of students are established; the indigenous and non- Indians who study at the Federal Institute Goiano – Câmpus Urutaí; seeking to understand how

the unfolding relations between Indians and non-Indians occur within the school environment, presenting as one of the groups involved in the research, students of the Xakriabá ethnic group;

they are received and perceived within this environment, composed predominantly of non- indigenous students and how the interaction between these subjects occurs, based on the cultural

ethnic differences of these two groups and arise; which are, the conflicts from this interrelationship, because the campus serves students from the city of Urutaí and several localities of Goiás; in addition to other states, creating a multicultural environment. The research is characterized as to its objectives as an explanatory research, seeking to detail how these relationships are established; using Phenomenology as a method, an appropriate method to access the symbolic and subjective values that involve the social constructs of these individuals, profiling in the assumptions of Cultural Humanist Geography, it is a research quantitative-qualitative, a priori, surveys were conducted on the number of students, indigenous and non-indigenous who live within this same space, data collection was performed, analysed and interpreted qualitatively; during the research process, a bibliographic survey was conducted on the theme, fieldwork, observation and application of questionnaires. The relevance of the theme is based on cooperating so that the school community, the academic community, managers and politicians, can perceive the importance of reflections on ethnic identity, intergroup and interethnic relationships in the school space, and the relevance of Geography for the development of research related to this theme. They are identifiable in the research, evidence that ethnocultural differences become an element that can awaken conflicts, acts of racism and bullying within the school space, which makes it important, to give visibility to the group of Xakriabás students so that may point to prejudiced acts against their ethnicity, also claim their demands.