Oral History and Collective memory in the ethno-education and self-education curriculum: other knowledge and practices in school

Abstract

This article presents advances of the research project: “Taking a look back at school: pedagogical practices and knowledge in the area of social sciences in ethno-educational processes and self-education”, of the Investigation Group in Intercultural Studies of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Cauca. The firts part of the study consisted of the documentary review of Community Education and Self-education projects, specifically in the department of Cauca, and which are characterized by the questioning and reconfiguration of school knowledge with respect to the teaching of history. The first review focuses on the categories of Oral History and Collective Memory, and how these are present in these projects through the recognition of voices, events and characters, closely related to the history of indigenous peoples and their resistance struggles. Demonstrate what are forms, purposes and contents, through which Oral History and Collective Memory are articulated in the curriculum of educational institutions that are part of the Indigenous Educational System in the Department of Cauca, as well as the didactic transformations, what this implies is the goal of this article.