Teaching Algorithms to Indigenous Ticuna Students

• Maristela Holanda UnB
• Ayrla Danielly Nascimento Costa UnB
• Edison Ishikawa UnB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wei.2025.8328

Abstract

The Brazilian Constitution and its subsequent laws have established various rights and protections for Indigenous peoples, including the right to Indigenous schools where their culture and native language must be taught, learned, and preserved. In 2022, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Brasília welcomed its first three Indigenous students from the Ticuna community in the Amazon region. Faculty and students from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Brasília collaborated to address the gap in computer science education in the basic schooling of these Indigenous students. This paper describes the materials created by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students of the Licenciatura em Ação (LEA) project at UnB for teaching algorithms within the context of Ticuna culture and language.

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