El Currículo para la Sostenibilidad en la Educación Básica Secundaria Observado desde el Pueblo Indígena Kankuamo de Colombia

Abstract

This research analyzed the curricular development in the basic secondary education of an ancestral community in Colombia, seeking to know its proposal for sustainability. The foregoing, providing answers to the problem defined by focusing on the environmental crisis facing the planet, linked to the interactions between the human being with his environment, and the need for training for action from the perspective of the environment as the result of a complex dynamic. that integrates social, natural, and cultural factors. In this sense, education and the curriculum are used, considering how from the first citizen awareness is sought, capable of transforming reality through comprehensive education, which includes the development of skills typical of science, but also of the human dimension. making it sensitive to the commitments facing the challenges of society, while the curriculum manages to specify the pedagogical and didactic elements for the consolidation of that citizenship. In relation to the environmental crisis, the need to promote changes to the curriculum has been raised, so that training for action is consolidated where elements such as the customs of some native peoples are integrated, where relations with Mother Nature are more harmonious, for example, the Kankuama community of Colombia located in the north of the country. The theoretical framework was developed from three categories of analysis, defined as follows: Encounters between the curriculum and principles of sustainability declared and developed in the Kankuamo Educational System (hereinafter OEK); Epistemological and pedagogical conceptions of the OEK against the regulations and authors; the elements of sustainability and the educational praxis of the OEK. The qualitative research paradigm is assumed, under the social critical approach, taking ethnography as a method. In short, results indicate how the Kankuamo Educational Model promotes environmental sustainability and the preservation of indigenous culture through the integration of ancestral and Western knowledge, focuses on the formation of an upright citizen, community participation, respect for nature, seeks to strengthen cultural identity and transmit ancestral knowledge, also promotes environmental awareness and appreciation of the territory. The foregoing constitutes a reference in the way of integrating the indigenous worldview in education to promote sustainability and respect for Mother Earth.