Paisaje Entre Nubes: una experiencia de alfabetización desde el lugar

Abstract

This educational research project was developed within the framework of the 2023-2/2024-2 innovation cycle in the field of geographic education, teacher training, and citizenship at the Francisco José de Caldas District University. The project was implemented with seventh-grade students at the Juan Rey District Educational Institution, located in San Cristóbal, Bogotá, Colombia. The research focused on landscape literacy as a tool to strengthen geographic education and civic awareness. Using a qualitative methodology with a historical-hermeneutic approach, workshops, field trips, questionnaires, and journals were used to understand the students' representations of their environment. The results show that landscape literacy promotes a critical understanding of the local landscape, the recognition of its natural and anthropic elements, and the redefinition of the connection with the inhabited place. This experience favored the construction of more conscious perspectives on local environmental problems and the strengthening of active citizenship. This experience culminates in the design of a pedagogical protocol for conducting field trips, recognizing their transformative power in consolidating learning that goes beyond the boundaries of the classroom, fostering a deeper understanding of the place and the world.