La huerta bibliotecaria: experiencia de aprendizaje comunitario para las niñas y los niños

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to compile the iniciative of an idea that underlies a reading of reality in La Peña Public Library where it has been built a Garden of Pollinators Orchard from the experience community work. This is a space full of aromatic plants, seasoning and medicines, it develops working with girls and boys interest around the environmental awareness that the territory needs. The library is located in La Peña neighborhood, on the Bogotá outskirts, very close to the great lung of the city, the Eastern Hills. However, despite being so close to them and the fact that historically the oldest inhabitants of the territory enjoyed many of its environmental benefits, little by little over time the incidence of human beings has deteriorated them. For this reason, it is proposed to strengthen the idea of an orchard as a laboratory in which child population can have access to reading processes in a different space other than a classroom, becoming this, in a place where conversation with girls and boys is essential to recognize environmental awareness regarding the territory they inhabit. Methodologically, this work is framed in the qualitative paradigm and that is why elements of ethnographic research are taken, with the interest of analyzing girls and boys realities from their narratives where is reflected how they see and understand the world. Based on the above and after carrying out seven face-to-face meetings with the girls and boys and analyzing the information collected, important results will be obtained that girls and boys are interlocutors, producers of various narratives and knowledge replicators. In the same way, it was observed that, likewise, girls and boys are subjects who produce (oral) texts to preserve their culture to the point of evidencing a construction of knowledge based on this experience and finally girls and boys become visible as knowledge builders.