SALT AND SOAP TEACHER: THE INCLUSION OF THE FIGURE OF THE PROFESSIONAL INDIGENOUS TEACHER IN THE DENI CULTURE OF THE XERUÃ RIVER

Abstract

This article is called Salt and Soap Teacher: The inclusion of the figure of the professional indigenous teacher in the Deni culture of the Xeruã River, aims to analyze the principles of the choice of the teacher and his performance in strengthening the historical project of the Deni indigenous people of the Xeruã River, the research was carried out in the village of Boiador,  in the Deni Indigenous Land, in the Municipality of Itamarati in the State of Amazonas, starting from the following question, what are the criteria for choosing and monitoring to become an indigenous teacher of the Deni people of the Xeruã River? The theoretical perspective is the hermeneutic of Paul Ricouer (1989), added to the methodology of micrology and data experience in education, Adria (2022), the thought of coloniality and critical interculturality, with publications on the subject of the last 25 years, the methodology used was micrology and data experience in education, with a qualitative approach, with the support of technical instruments,  observation, participatory participation, photographic and audiovisual records, field diaries, small reports and collective memory, the subjects of the research are the indigenous teachers and the Deni leaders, the results intend to show the strength of the processes of building and transmitting knowledge, as well as the complexity of thinking about other practices and knowledge of indigenous school/school education and indigenous teacher training from the reality of the culture of the Deni peopleelement.