Benditas brujas, mujeres de carne y hueso: su historia y su poder llevado al aula

Abstract

This research-creation was carried out with the girls and boys of the course 202 of the Francisco Antonio Zea School (IED), located in the town of Usme, with the aim of creating a book album to raise awareness and resignify the character of the witch, with the possibility of crossing that classroom and reaching many readers willing to know another part of the story of this character.Throughout the process the power of the book-album was discovered by constituting a pedagogical tool that makes it possible to mobilize thoughts and feelings in the protagonists.In addition, other visions and conceptions on the feminine and on the character of the witch germinated; on the one hand, the feminine ceased to be the weak, the maternal and the fragile, to be strong, dreamer, builder and with a possibility of power that, throughout history, has driven social transformations; and, on the other hand, the witch was identified as a woman of flesh and blood capable of combating prejudices and relations of inequality, and with knowledge and powers to help society.