Imaginarios de paz en niñas y niños del Colegio Antonio José Uribe en Bogotá

Abstract

The objective of this research was to show how children between 9 and 12 years old, in a school in Bogotá configured the imaginaries about the construction of peace in Colombia and their life experiences were the basis of creation a pedagogical tool from the voice of this boys and girls. These stories are summarized in four conceptions of peace between peace as the absence of agents that disturb the tranquility, to peace understood as actions of the adult-child hand generate safe spaces to live in peace. These conceptions were translated into 12 activities presented in the pedagogical proposal of this research. The investigation of imaginaries was carried out through a qualitative approach, with a participative methodology, where children from their narratives had the leading role as builders of knowledge for a pedagogy of peace. In addition, this research demonstrates the need to transform the adult-centered imaginaries, in order to give children the chance to show their creative potential, using the resources they have for the construction of pedagogical tools for training in a culture of peace. With these results, a whole set of imaginaries, perceptions and beliefs that children have about the notions that are part of their reality and that are left aside are visible, but by allowing them to emerge they give the opportunity to children in their role of creator of alternative forms of education that ensure a fair society and guarantor of the rights of this population.