El cuidado del agua : una propuesta Pedagógica de Educación Ambiental, desde la perspectiva biocéntrica, basada en la cosmovisión de las etnias Cubeos, Jiw, Piratapuyos y Tuyucas

Abstract

This research explores the diverse knowledge of the indigenous communities of the Amazon region of the department of Guaviare regarding water care, creating with them alternative pedagogical strategies that contribute to the development of school educational projects (PRAE), and environmental education projects, focused on the Community (PROCEA), that is makes visible that traditional, ancestral and peasant knowledge, giving them relevance within the strategies used in the teaching-learning processes in the chair of environmental education, focusing on the care and preservation of water sources. Therefore, the general objective of the project is to recognize ancestral and peasant knowledge about water care and incorporate it into pedagogical strategies to be implemented in the chair of environmental education, focusing on the care of water sources in the area. These pedagogical strategies are aimed at strengthening the process of environmental education, focused on the care of water sources from a biocentric perspective both within educational institutions and in the context that surrounds them, which means seeking sustainable development, by making the community aware education regarding an important problem, the shortage of water that predominates during a great part of the year, putting in serious risk the nature, the biodiversity and the ethnic and cultural richness that characterizes the region of the Colombian Amazon. Other problems associated with the lack of water resources are presented at the health level, since vector-borne diseases and gastrointestinal diseases proliferate, among others, as well as nutritional problems, lack of food and quality of them. These problems mainly affect children and older adults, promoting drop-out at school and low quality of educational processes, since children due to illnesses must suspend classes for a large part of the school year. Many of them leave school definitively or die. In these circumstances of shortage of water, in the medium or long term the school and the path tend to disappear. On the other hand, due to the lack of water resources, families have seen their economic income diminished as their agricultural projects are losing their economic value, as well as their farms and properties. To achieve the collection of ancestral knowledge and their integration into pedagogical practice, qualitative research is used with a hermeneutic-critical approach aimed at community participation through social mapping, methodological planning tool which allows the collective construction of knowledge using observation and interview as information gathering tools. The research project focused on consulting the following sources: first, in the indigenous ethnic groups of the Cubeos, Tuyucas, Piratapuyos and Jiw amazonian regions; secondly, in the students, professors, directors and parents of the (Las Damas) Educational Institution, lastly in the official entities, the Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the North and the Amazon East (CDA), the National Service of Learning (SENA), the Amazon Scientific Research Institute (SINCHI), National Parks of Colombia and the environmental organization, (SÍ GUAVIARE). All of them contributed from their knowledge to the construction of pedagogical strategies of environmental education from the biocentric worldview product of this investigation.