The health thematic in indigenous teachers training

an analysis based on the Likert Scale

Abstract

This paper analyzes the perception about health formation in the Indigenous Intercul-tural Graduation Course of the Federal University of Amapá. The work was developed based on the quantitative method and analysis of the questionnaire answered by eleven graduates of the course. We systematized data in two dimensions through frequency distribution, antithetic and general mean. The Likert Attitudinal Scale (LAS) guided the criteria to elaborate the questionnaire and organize the set of raw data from research in health sciences teaching. The LAS made it possible to specify the levels of agreement or disagreement of graduates and indigenous teachers about the satisfaction of the course. According to the result, 77.2% of indigenous teachers were satisfied with health training in higher education, while 22.71% of them stressed the need to review the Pedagogical Politic Project of the Indigenous Intercultural Graduation Course, with emphasis on the area of habilitating in Exact and Nature Sciences. The result suggests reflecting on the curricular matrix on the course from a multicul-tural model and listening to indigenous communities to improve the undergraduate course.