Diálogo entre el saber local tradicional y el saber científico escolar : una experiencia de aula a través de actividades interculturales con niños de 4º primaria del Colegio Quiroga Alianza IED

Abstract

In the teaching of Natural Sciences, the objective is to internalize scientific knowledge, aimed at preserving the environment, generating a sense of belonging and understanding of it in children. Such teaching can address enriching elements that are present in the Traditional Local Knowledge of the original peoples of our country, which should not be alien to our children. According to De la Cruz (2005): "Users of traditional knowledge, through their ancestral practices, play an important role in conservation. They transmit collective traditional knowledge and integrate new generations to their own cultural norms, which is essential for the survival of communities with their own cultural identity. In this way they adapt to nature, constituting their orchards in fields of experimentation in situ, with these practices the western world has benefited, inclusive, with the great cultural ethnic diversity of the countries that is an intangible cultural heritage of incalculable value." (p.15) Unfortunately within the school environment there is no space to discuss this, therefore children do not have their ancestral roots in mind through the peoples that currently inhabit Colombia, being important to establish dialogue between these actors within the School Scientific Knowledge, rescuing thus the value that these groups have as cultural heritage. Part of the proposed solution is to build cultural stories that allow children to recognize the relationship between Traditional Local Knowledge and Scientific School Knowledge through vertebrate wildlife, this being an opportunity to attract children in an attractive way through the process reader-writer corresponding to their age and the implementation of a Wui power card game… Learning is faunástico! This will strengthen information regarding specimens corresponding to Colombian vertebrate wildlife.