As brincadeiras indígenas como práticas educativas intergeracionais na Universidade da Maturidade - UMA/UFT

Abstract

This Master's research deals with indigenous games obtained through narratives of elders from the University of Maturity of UMA-UFT. Its general objective is to outline indigenous games through narratives and intergenerational educational practices. While the results of investigations on playing achieved in the spaces of the University of Maturidade, of the Federal University of Tocantins (UMA/UFT) are published, which unfolds in the following specific objectives: a) To register the characteristics of the Indigenous Territory of the Akwê people -Xerente in Tocantínia - Tocantins; b) Narrate how indigenous games were and how learning happens through playing with the elders; c) Describe how the Universidade da Maturidade -UFT collaborates with reflections on indigenous games in an intergenerational way. d) Share moments of experiences with children and indigenous elders of the Akwê- Xerente people. The study included 10 academics enrolled in the year 2022 from the University of Maturidade - UMA of the Federal University of Tocantins indigenous pole of the city of Tocantínia -TO. Data were collected through interviews, it is an applied research with a qualitative approach. As a result, it can be pointed out that in the narratives the elders of the indigenous UMA were able to awaken memories that were dormant and felt free to expose them, which gave them pleasure and distraction, and it can be said that it is conservation of their own stories, as they found attentive ears to their narratives, in which they are protagonists of very rich memories loaded with the sociocultural identity of their ethnicity, vivid memories of indigenous games that are being forgotten every day by current generations.