Historias de vida como herramienta didáctica para la revitalización de los saberes culturales y lingüísticos en la Unidad Educativa Intercultural Bilingüe “Amauta Ñanpi”

Abstract

The present research aims to apply a learning based on cultural and linguistic knowledge of the seven nationalities that converge in the Unidad Educativa Comunitaria Intercultural Bilingüe “Amauta Ñanpi” Kichwa, Shuar, Achuar, Andwa, Shiwiar, Waorani and Andwa with students of the first year of high school "B", from the life stories of the community actors of the institution (teachers, students, parents and leaders of nationalities). Those experiences, from the educational experience in the territory allow to revalue the ancestral knowledge of the seven nationalities mentioned above and use them in the teaching process - learning, seeking to generate meaningful learning that corresponds to the territories and reality of each student. In the life stories, several components were addressed that will be reflected in a website in more detail, which aims to encourage actors in the educational community to be researchers and to value their cultural and linguistic knowledge. The research emerged from the observation and participatory action carried out during the pre-professional practices (pp) in the institution, noting, how cultural and linguistic knowledge was not incorporated into the learning teaching process, therefore, the contents were not contextualized into students’ reality, leading to demotivation, a non-significant learning and loss of identity by devaluing the wealth offered by the cultural and linguistic knowledge of each nationality. Consequently, from life stories as a methodological strategy with a qualitative approach, seven stories of nationalities were developed that converge in the institution to favor a teaching process - contextualized and meaningful learning, that allows students to develop an intrinsic motivation to want to learn, to value more their roots and those of their classmates. Furthermore, with life stories, it is intended that both teachers and students, will understand the world in a different way through the experiences and experiences of other people, because they relate the importance of cultural and personal identity. For the raising of cultural and linguistic knowledge from the experiences of the main actors of the educational community, methodological tools were used with a qualitative approach, this information, allowed to elaborate and apply a guide of inter learning with the students of first of baccalaureate "B" and design a web page in which the cultural and linguistic knowledge of each nationality is reflected.