Nhanhembo’é: childhood, education and religion among Guarani from M’Biguaçu, SC

Abstract

This article has as its theme children
participation in “tradition valorization” process in
M’Biguaçu village, SC.Through an ethnographic
boarding, it discourses upon their atuation in pray-
ing, choral and school, three fundamental spaces in
this process. With base in recent presuppositions
of Anthropology of Education and Childhood, it
shows that construction of Opÿ (Guarani Praying
House), and most especifically, the formation of a
choral and the implantation of a school in the vil-
lage reveal a conscious and systematic leaderships’
pedagogical intention in the constitution of con-
texts for “tradition” teaching and learning, directed
to children education. Besides, it shows that chil-
dren active participation in these spaces is suited in
an education notion in which the act of learning
(nhanhembo’é) and the act of teaching (mbo’é) are
conceived as mutually implicated actions and both
who teaches and who learns are considered subjects
in the teaching and learning.