Terena Childhood Spaces-Times: from Home Yard to Indigenous School

Abstract

This article presents information about the children’s spaces of the Terena indigenous people, from the perspective of the Terena teachers of the small village of Limão Verde, located in the municipality of Aquidauana, state of Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil). The text is a result of the immersion carried out during the field research of the doctorate in education completed in the year 2014. Through the application of questionnaires, recorded interviews and visits to the indigenous municipal school Lutuma Dias, this text gathers part of the material used in the formulation of the thesis and at this moment aims at presenting how the narratives of the indigenous teachers construct the space-times of childhood for the children Terena. In addition to the information collected with the teachers, the observations noted in a field book were used together with theoretical references that help in the problematization of different childhoods, especially the indigenous ones, with the aim of bringing the reader closer to one of the several existing childhoods, providing arguments for the problematization of the local dimension of childhood in the social structure of each village and of the institutions aimed at children.