ABSTRACT This article aims to reflect on infant school education during the process of training teachers for indigenous schools. It is based on the narratives of teachers in the Indigenous Intercultural Pedagogy course in Vale do Javari, AM, Brazil. Such narratives were produced from the class “Indigenous Children and School” and “Supervised teaching experience”, and were organized in 3 procedures: the personal narratives of childhood; the narratives according to ethnicity, which highlighted the way in which children live in communities; and narratives about children in indigenous infant schools.

RESUMO Este artigo visa refletir sobre a educação infantil no processo de formação de professores na educação escolar indígena. Tem como base as narrativas de professores no curso de Pedagogia Intercultural Indígena no Vale do Javari (AM), Brasil. Tais narrativas foram produzidas a partir das disciplinas “Infâncias e Escola Indígena” e “Estágio Supervisionado”, as quais foram organizadas em três procedimentos: as narrativas pessoais da própria infância; as narrativas por etnia, nas quais se destacaram a forma como as crianças vivem nas comunidades; e as narrativas sobre a criança nas escolas indígenas de educação infantil.