Creation of a picture book as educational material for ruural primary school

Abstract

This paper documents the creation of a picture book that helps preserve Colombia's rural culture and serves as educational material for rural primary schools. The study argues theoretically the use of fables as an educational tool for educating about different cultural traditions and as an input for English language teaching. This research project presents a decolonial and transformative perspective on learning English by broadening the approach to include the same language and it helped to develop the identity of the participants and their cultural awareness. Finally, in the different phases of the methodology, it can be evidenced that the students’ stories and productions were adapted into the final product of this visually and easily accessible picture book.