Cultural English, una mediación para enseñar derechos a niños en territorio de post conflicto

Abstract

This study describes the contributions of Research and Action on the teaching of English with communicative purposes "Cultural English" to promote participation, action and transformation of the experience of the rights of children living in post-conflict territories in Colombia. It is worth mentioning that the research is carried out with the support of the IN-JU Huellas Foundation, who facilitated the connection with children in territories in Casanare and Córdoba, and thus, the scenario for the action. Participatory Action Research (PAR) seeks to contribute to the empowerment of vulnerable groups, so that they decide and manage their own change. In this experience, it sought to contribute to that change, by proposing in this work the objective of promoting participation, action and transformation of the experience of rights in children in post-conflict contexts, based on the use of communicative mediations in English. Consequently, in order to achieve the objective, a review of the context of the departments of Casanare and Córdoba and the human rights violations that have taken place there was made. At the same time, an educational strategy was proposed, which included the creation of spaces for collaborative learning about human rights with children in territories where even today, after the peace agreement, they are still vulnerable to violations of their rights.