Palabras que cuidan: aportes de relatos infantiles a una ética del cuidado de sí mismo y del otro

Abstract

In midst hate and fear speech that promote acts of indifference, intolerance and violence, Palabras que Cuidan aims to recover the value of the word under the ethical paradigm of care and the recognition of its transformative potential as an expression of human agency, from the childhood experience as discursive subjects of a group of siblings living in Mosquera and a group of partners from a cultural institution living in Bogotá. In their stories and perspectives, which emerged in a series of workshops and word circles, they expressed the meanings of care through which they interact with others, and vice versa, as well as specific words and/or expressions with which they recognize caring and being cared for, words that represent them in their subjectivity and, simultaneously, symbolize their preferences in verbal and non-verbal treatment and ideas of individual and collective actions from the perspective of the use of the word that encompasses the content, the intention and the way of enunciating them, as well as the joint construction of agreements for peaceful coexistence. We conclude that the participants the bidirectional nature of caring, that the meanings that surround care practices are not univocal, but depend on personal and collective experience, and that the use of the word impacts the lives of people.