APYÃWA NUMBERING
Conception and Method in the Literacy Process
Child Education. Apyãwa Education. Ethnomathematics. Cultural Cycle.
We currently live in the context of a political scenario that seeks to increasingly weaken indigenous peoples and nullify remarkable knowledge and knowledge that has much to contribute to the construction of education in the country, especially in Indigenous Education. From an angle contrary to this perspective, the present research was fostered by the theme Indigenous Education in the literacy scenario of children in the Apyãwa community, focusing on the numeracy process and on the educational practice of Apyãwa/Tapirapé literacy teachers. From this perspective, the present research aimed to verify the influences of the sociocultural aspects of the people in the numeracy process from literacy, that is, to conceive Apyãwa education as a cultural circle. It also intended to research official documents, such as Pedagogical Projects and Teaching Plans, seeking to understand the pedagogical concepts and the formative and literacy assumptions proposed by the school, especially with regard to numeracy. In view of this, we seek to establish an analysis of the literacy method used by teachers in order to understand what knowledge is articulated in the methodological process of numeracy during the early childhood education phase of the Apyãwa/Tapirapé people. Anchored in the theoretical assumptions of Freire (1989, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2014), Mendes (2001), Vergane (2007), Sebastiani, Boaventura (2007), Baldus, Eagles and D'Ambrósio (1986, 1993, 1994, 2013), among others, qualitative research of an ethnographic nature, with participant observation, semi-structured interviews, audio-visual recordings, field notebooks and document analysis, based on an approach that will prioritize the constant interaction between researcher and research subjects. The locus of the research was the Tapi’itãwa State Indigenous School.