Palabras del territorio: lenguajes, expresiones y memorias en la experiencia pedagógica rural

Abstract

This report systematizes the internship experience carried out at the Instituto Agrícola Alto Cauca in Marsella, Risaralda, within the framework of the PTAFI program and its Viva la Escuela initiative, through a pedagogical proposal aimed at strengthening the expressive, communicative, and socio-emotional skills of children and young people in rural contexts. From a critical sociolinguistic and pedagogical perspective, the project recognized the students’ linguistic varieties, everyday expressions, and forms of orality as legitimate manifestations of identity, memory, and collective knowledge construction. As a result of this process, a palabrario was collaboratively developed with the students, compiling expressions and meanings specific to the school and territorial context, thus articulating language, memory, and literary creation. Based on a qualitative approach and participatory action research, creative writing workshops, artistic expression activities, dialogue sessions, and territorial memory exercises were implemented, allowing students’ ways of speaking to become pedagogical tools and means of critical reflection. The experience demonstrated that recognizing everyday language within the classroom strengthens processes of participation, cultural appropriation, and identity construction in rural education.