Desde el corazón de las montañas: memorias de unas doñas y doñitas paramunas. análisis de experiencias de la escuela de comunicación popular las doñas paramunas

Abstract

This research, conducted alongside the Popular Communication School "Las Doñas Paramunas" in the Sumapaz ecoregion, narrates the process of "creating by doing" through the systematization of the school's experience to analyze the learnings and human development transformations of the "Doñas" and "Doñitas" (participants of the school). The theoretical-methodological approach involved triangulating three fields/theoretical perspectives that lie within the gaps/margins/borders of disciplines: popular and community communication, gender studies, and community education, all viewed through the lens of Human Development and the Capabilities Approach. The inductive method and category inference method were used. The methodological orientation was guided by a qualitative and critical-social approach with a strong presence of Participatory Action Research. Additionally, critical interpretative systematization was the unifying axis of this research-action-systematization. The analysis of the experience during the process of reconstructing our history in the School was guided by four axes of experience reconstruction (Pedagogical and creative spaces: learning/doing, Communicative and narrative, Territory and organizational, and Being/I am a woman) and interpretation axes of the experience analyzed from the Capabilities Approach. It was found that the process of "Las Doñas Paramunas" has its own capacities and tools that allow it to be in a constant collaborative process of creating networks to narrate themselves from their places of enunciation, to create possibilities for territory transformation, personal life, and organization creation alongside others. These tools and capacities enable critical reflection on practices and learning discourses; from this edge of the community and popular, we talk about collaborative, situated learning, the constant creation of participatory methodologies, and paradigm shifts by not only speaking of territory defense but of care, demonstrating how theory can be constructed from practice and learning by doing. These findings allow me/us to mention some hints for continuing to build "bridges and rivers" of collaboration between territories, to keep seeking ways to meet and create, to keep narrating ourselves. These findings are an invitation to talk about the transformations that occur while doing because despite the multiple challenges, we persist in building the dream behind the dream. A process of dreaming that has led us to live four years of adventures, four years of learning-by-doing in the territory, of creating, of narrating ourselves, of coming together from the heart of the mountain. Key Words: Human development, Popular communication, Narrate, Systematization, Capabilities approach and Community organization