ANALYSIS AND PERCEPTION OF THE CARTOGRAPHY OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
PRESENT AT UFOPA
Cartography, Education, Indigenous, Linguistics, Politics.
This Master's Thesis study seeks to analyze the perception of the
cartography of the indigenous languages present at Ufopa (Federal University of Western Pará).
Pará) and is linked to a larger investigation (Leite, in progress) and an extension and teaching project
extension and teaching project aimed at developing an institutional methodology
methodology for drawing up guidelines for the construction of an indigenous language policy
which received funding from Notice 001/2023-CGPRITS/UFOPA. The research
was approved by CONEP (National Research Ethics Committee) under the protocol
CAAE: 74368623.1.0000.0171. More specifically, this study aims to analyze the
perception of Ufopa's academic community in relation to the presence of indigenous
indigenous peoples in the university context. This analysis was carried out as part of the
Methodology of research in language offered in the first semester of
2024, a mini-course was held by the research group on the linguistic diversity of indigenous
diversity present in the university context. During the mini-course, a pilot
test was carried out with the 13 students of the PPGL/2024 Master's class with the main objective of
validate the main data collection instrument, an electronic questionnaire.
questionnaire. The questionnaire was applied via google forms and consisted of 19
questions classified into two types: a) obtaining a sociodemographic profile and b)
obtaining pedagogical information. There were 12 open questions and 7 multiple-choice questions.
choice. The answers obtained were organized in an excel spreadsheet editor, with the following stepsthe following steps: a) coding the participants to guarantee their anonymity; b)
standardization of similar responses with a view to subsequent coding and quantitative treatment of the data.
treatment of the data. A total of 198 data points were analyzed. Once the
data processing stage, a Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient Test was carried out
(CRONBACH,1951), which revealed little heterogeneity in the data obtained, i.e,
there was no variability in responses that would support a more detailed scale
with multiple and diverse responses. The method applied attested to
compatibility of the data. For the final data collection, it is planned to
improvement of the questionnaire, with a view to quantitative analysis using the
Panel Data Analysis (SONG; Li,2008), which is used to analyze information from
several sample units in different categories (space or time, for example).
time, for example).