Diálogo intercultural no agreste e sertão pernambucanos: o Povo Pankará e os/ãs Artesãos/ãs do Alto do Moura

Abstract

This work gives rise to highlighting an intercultural dialogue between the cosmovisions of the craftspeople from Alto do Moura - Caruaru/PE and the Pankará people, whose perception is the outcome  of the deployment strategies of the Institutional Program of Scholarships as an introduction to Teaching for Diversity (PIBID Diversity), from the research project Professores Indígenas de Pernambuco (Indigenous Teachers of Pernambuco): professional training, research and pedagogical practice, from dialogue circles with the aforementioned potters and, theoretically, from the lenses of postcolonial studies (ESCOBAR, 2003; MIGNOLO, 2007; MALDONADO-TORRES, 2007). The dynamics of

PIBID Diversidade, from the Agreste Campus of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), has a place of prominence, in this work, on the formational and educational practices of the Pankará people and of the craftspeople from Alto do Moura. This path was, jointly, built in a close liaison with the Indigenous Teachers Commission of Pernambuco (COPIPE), the craftspeople from Alto do Moura, the indigenous participants of PIBID Diversidade and associates bound to the university. The methodological strategies employed  join  the perspectives of the recursive movement, breaking with the colonialist linearity of societal actions which favor urban-centric and governmental school  sets of learning knowledge. Access to the cosmovisions of the Pankará people and the intersubjective contacts of the craftspeople from Alto do Moura revealed the educational practices and the production of popular knowledge, fostering a critical proposition stance at and among the group of indigenous participants and craftspeople. In both contexts, from indigenous and craftspeople's sets of knowledge/wisdom, the cosmovisions and distinct life experiences complement each other, at least prominently, either in the appreciation and respect to traditional knowledge, or in orality and daily life, whose perceptions and value judgments are inherited and transmitted individually and collectively.