Mujeres construyendo identidad mientras leen el mundo
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The identity of women has many aspects to explore. In fact, there have been some studies on gender addressing women’s role in society and how this role has shaped women’s identity (Baxter, 2018; Beauvoir, 1970; Butler, 1990). In our context, some of those studies have reflected that women have been affected by different social, economic and political factors (Vera, 2015).This study wants to explore more in depth these issues by addressing practice of literacy developed by adult ladies in the context of an institution of popular education. Reflecting on Freire’s (1985) ideas about literacy defined as reading-the-world instead of simply the act of reading-and-writing, I decided to focus on understanding what these women’s ways of reading the world could tell me about their identities. The pedagogical intervention was based on the concept of feminist pedagogy and the principles of self-understanding and self-recognition from Hundertwasser in his book The Power of Art, the Painter King with the 5 Skins (1998). They both show how women’s identity emerged as a significant referent in literacy development and therefore as a backbone of my research. Feminist pedagogy was also my approach to value what I consider is invisibilizing women. Data collection was supported on narrative inquiry. Oral and written stories narrated by the participants which were composed by personal life stories through drawings, worksheets, and narratives interviews were also important as a literacy learning practice that could highlight other ways to read and understand the world. I can reckon in the analyzed data how the identity created by women is based on empowerment strategies which have increased their alternative literacy skills these skills are genuine, original and have been underestimated by the general public and the academic literature. women faced significant experiences and went through several processes in the developing of their own – self, dealing with internal tensions (the inner self) and external tensions (the self-versus roles of different spheres society).