Da comunidade ao ensino superior

uma travessia (de saberes) Xokós, Sertão do São Francisco, Alagoas, 2010-2022

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the increase in the inclusion of indigenous peoples in higher education through Expansion and Restructuring Program for Higher Education Institutions - REUNI, recognizing the importance of higher education for the country's indigenous students. In particular, we cut out an interview carried out with a Xokó indigenous man from Sergipe, in order to understand how the overlap between the individual and the collective occurs, materialized in the figure of the indigenous person in higher education and the consequences caused in their communities. In methodological terms, we dialogue with content analysis, Oral History in a qualitative approach with a descriptive and interpretative character. The sources allowed us to evaluate everything from the continuation of these indigenous people in their involvement with their communities, to the adoption of a responsibility and a social role as intellectual sat the university, causing important changes within their people.