Jugando a Prevenir: Estrategia Didáctica Lúdica para la Gestión de Riesgos en Estudiantes de Séptimo y Octavo Grado de la Ciudad Educadora Espíritu Santo, Villavicencio

Abstract

In Colombia, natural disasters represent a serious problem, as their consequences have caused deaths as well as financial, environmental, and social repercussions. The lack of attention is the main cause of this situation, since prevention can avoid human errors that lead to major tragedies and calamities. Therefore, there is a need to investigate this issue by designing educational strategies for risk and disaster management and prevention. This work aims to design an educational strategy that contributes to strengthening the competencies related to natural risk management and prevention in seventh and eighth grade students at Ciudad Educadora Espíritu Santo (CEES), located in the urban context of Villavicencio. The research is framed within the qualitative paradigm, from a social constructionist epistemological perspective, adopting a hermeneutic approach. The institution has made significant progress in integrating risk management into its school culture, as it has a School Risk Management Plan (PEGR) aligned with the Institutional Educational Project (PEI), the code of conduct, and Colombian regulations. However, despite these advances, the results of diagnostic and institutional observation show that the content related to prevention and emergency response has not yet been consolidated within classroom pedagogical practices. From a pedagogical perspective, play emerges as a transformative possibility, and the charades dynamic—adapted here as an educational tool based on mime—makes it possible to represent, practice, and reflect on emergency situations in a participatory and contextualized way.