Recetario de tradiciones y costumbres: Expresiones interculturales de niños y niñas en la escuela.

Abstract

This project was born from the different intercultural expressions in the classroom of boys and girls of indigenous, afro-descendant and foreign origin who have migrated to Bogotá. As music and plastic arts teachers, we find that these expressions find little value in the school environment as they are overshadowed by a dominant culture. This process leaves no room for the cultural expressions that migrant children bring with them as part of their roots, and places them in situations in which their right to the development of free personality, freedom of expression and respect for differences is violated. Based on the interest of making visible and putting into dialogue the different voices and narratives of boys and girls from different places, we developed creative laboratory-type experiences with two groups of children from public institutions in Bogotá, Camilo Torres and José Asunción Silva, in these, we shared different cultural expressions and experiences through art and music, and based on the results obtained, we co-created a series of video-capsules. These collect expressions of memory, identity and cultural tradition that were present in the classroom but were not voiced in traditional school spaces.