La dignidad humana como experiencia pedagógica de esperanza en la misión de Kokuselei, Turkana, Kenia.

Abstract

This research work is carried out in order to reflect on the underlying elements of the pedagogical experience, in favor of human dignity, lived by a group of women of the Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle (MCSPA) in the mission of Kokuselei, North of Turkana, Kenya; two of the authors of this document.

The systematization of experiences as the selected methodology, within the critic social approach of Freire and under the qualitative paradigm, accompanies the investigative journey. This allows the authors to a) identify the elements of the mission as the origin of their experience, b) establish the elements of human dignity as the aim of the experience, c) describe the role of critical pedagogy in the protection of the human dignity, and d) establish the state of vulnerability of the inhabitants of this area of Turkana from a human development approach.

Thanks to this, the authors generate a narrative about their social practice in the communities covered by Kokuselei mission. A practice composed of experiences oriented, for ten years (2007-2017), to the transformation of a reality that diminishes the human dignity of the inhabitants of this place in Africa