Tiempo de luna: comunicación para la educación menstrual, perspectiva del Cabildo Indígena Muisca de Suba

Abstract

Menstrual education and the different worldviews of indigenous communities regarding the topic have not been sufficiently explored from the field of social communication and journalism. Although we find sufficient information from diverse fields of knowledge, which explain menstruation from the biological and physiological aspects of the woman's body, the absence of the importance of the sociocultural discourses that surround it, which mostly appeal to menstruation, is evident. as a process of disease, dirt and impurity. These narratives violate women and even more so the girls and adolescents who begin this process; in addition to omitting ancestral knowledge and practices that can give another sense and meaning to menstruation. Therefore, the following work began the approach to the research process from communication with a differential gender approach in menstrual education based on the recognition of the legacies and traditions of the Muisca indigenous community in the Suba council and its perspective regarding this matter. This research effort was proposed from a social critical methodological approach with a historical hermeneutic perspective. Accordingly, the pedagogical and investigative creation process was situated from a qualitative perspective, based on the following reflection question: What contributions from the menstrual perspective of the Muisca indigenous council of Suba can be considered in the narratives of menstruation in adolescents of the town of Engativá? This inquiry guided the work investigative, in which it was proposed to identify the perceptions of girls and adolescents regarding menstruation, through the analysis of the experiences of indigenous women of the Muisca council of Suba, recognizing the contributions of their experiences to promote educational processes with a differential and intercultural approach. . One of the central goals that guided this research was to create, based on the findings and references on the subject, a pedagogical booklet on the menstrual perspective of “Tiempo de Luna” aimed at adolescents aged 15 to 17 at the Liceo el Gran Virrey school in the town of Engativá. Finally, this pedagogical booklet served and will serve girls and adolescents in search of other explanations, meanings and perspectives of their menstruation, clarifying doubts or acquiring new knowledge thanks to the Muisca indigenous community that is part of the Colombian territory and, in particular, from other women. Likewise, it seeks to give recognition to the worldviews of the Muisca community, forgotten by Western society, which give us other ways of recognizing ourselves, telling ourselves and being part of nature.