“A SCHOOL IN THE WOODS”: ASSURINI CHILDREN ACTIVITIES IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL SPACES

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to analyze the learning and socialization process of children from the Trocará Reserve and the different roles they play in this society. It is clear that indigenous childhood is full of meaning and that children are present in all areas of indigenous society. Therefore, it is essential to understand how children in the Trocará indigenous community socialize and interact with the knowledge that is part of the teaching-learning process of this indigenous people. To this end, studies by authors who discuss the topic, such as Domingues and Pinto (2013), Cruz (2009), Cohn (2005) and other authors who discuss the topic, were used as a theoretical and methodological reference. Subsequently, field research was carried out, in which, through the technique of Participant Observation, we sought to observe the daily lives of children, their ways of playing and socializing with the community, and interviews with leaders and children. The research used written documents, images and oral sources, through oral reports and life stories. Data from this work found that studies related to childhood have been growing thanks to Ethnography, History and Anthropology and, based on these studies, children are beginning to be studied as complete subjects and creators of knowledge.