Cosmopolitics, territories and education

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to establish possible relationships between three categories of fundamental relevance for contemporary academic reflections: cosmopolitics, territory, and education. To this end, we highlight some interfaces between Isabelle Stengers' cosmopolitical proposition and the contemporary understanding of territory. Such approaches allowed us to discuss the conception of territory for the Borum-Kren indigenous population, through an interview with the chief of this people, Danilo Silva Borum-Kren. Subsequently, we demonstrate the lack of inclusion of the indigenous understanding of territory, in its interrelation with cosmopolitics, in the curriculum of the State of Minas Gerais, which serves the second segment of elementary school. In conclusion, we point out the need to increase the presence of indigenous stories and groups in schools, as well as the essential need for specialized training for education professionals, through public policies of partnership between schools and indigenous subjects.