Social technologies from the Guarani and Kaiowá learning processes themselves

Abstract

This study proposes reflections from the research "Dialogue of knowledge: a meeting between different systems of knowledge with the Guarani and Kaiowá people - production of new social technologies", which aimed to investigate the ways of knowing and doing Guarani and Kaiowá in the Taquaperi Village, in Coronel Sapucaia-MS, regarding traditional knowledge, in the context of social technologies, whose results are diffuse but do not reach the educational system. For this, we sought to understand the ways of knowing and doing Guarani and Kaiowá in dialogue with Western knowledge, highlighting the contributions of traditional knowledge to the construction of educational, social and cultural alternatives. The study is based on post-colonial studies (Mato, 2008; Mignolo 2020; Santos, 2007; Walsh, 2009) so that the investigation was built in dialogue with indigenous intellectuals (Benites, 2009; Domingues, 2021; Lescano 2016 and 2024; Lescano 2021) and with the teachers and the indigenous community of Taquaperi Village. In this context, it can be seen that the social technologies of the Guarani and Kaiowá are related to orality, spirituality, relationship with the territory, the collectivity and experiences lived in community and the dialogue of knowledge is presented as a possibility for building more plural educational practices, capable of recognizing the epistemological and cosmological differences present in the production of knowledge.