Indigenous Presence in Higher Education: Trajectories of Kalapalo Students at UFG and UNEMAT.

• Grant number: 25/04460-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2025
• End date: April 30, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti
• Grantee: Daniel Januário da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/10271-3 - Indigenous people and Quilombolas in Higher Education: Analysis of access and permanence policies of public institutions for indigenous and Quilombola students, AP.PP

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze the life trajectories of Kalapalo students who entered the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT) and the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), seeking to understand how the Indigenous Intercultural Degree courses (UFG and UNEMAT) and the Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Nursing (UNEMAT) interact with the knowledge, ways of life, educational trajectories and demands of indigenous populations. In order to qualify the results of affirmative actions for indigenous peoples in Higher Education, this research seeks to understand how much and how admission, retention and curricular policies promote transformations both in indigenous peoples and in universities.