Prácticas mediadoras en contextos etnoeducativos

Abstract

This research presents the theoretical foundation of an investigation carried out in the process of post-graduation training in the La Guajira Master's Degree in Education of the Francisco José de Caldas District University located in Bogotá, Colombia, in relation to the mediation practices developed by the Pütchipü and its treatment before the different school conflicts. This in order to present the importance of culture and knowledge that are produced outside hegemonic and Eurocentric thought (Bruner, 1999) and visualize the understanding of social phenomena with interdisciplinary expressions (Wallerstein, 1996) given the need to reconstruct the historical, collective and cultural memory of indigenous peoples. This with the purpose of understanding some mediating practices used by the Pütchipü that could be linked to the resolution of school conflicts in the Ballenas Rural Ethno-educational Center of the Municipality of Barrancas (La Guajira). The possibilities of linking these practices within the framework of an intercultural education, is vital as Walsh (2009) points out in the search to generate bridges of knowledge between the diverse cultures that propose positions, processes, creative and purposeful practices that advance towards the promotion of Decolonial pedagogies and the construction of a reality mediated by culture.