Pesquisa, educação e luta indígena: a experiência de professores sateré-mawé

This text discusses the meaning of including satere-mawe teachers in a research team that investigated aspects of the sociocultural and educational reality of this nation. The research resulted from articulation between Organization of Indigenous Teachers and University. The satere-mawe teachers participated in the Project as scholarship holders, experimenting leaving the position of researched subject to occupy that of researcher. The investigation showed that the research was an important instrument of education of indigenous people and for valorizing culture, besides being a tool for fighting for a better life, although this might imply the emergence of a certain dispute among the indigenous people. For the researchers it represented intercultural learning and the real possibility of constructing another epistemological paradigm called ecology of knowledges