Abstract

IBANEZ-PACHECO, Martha Janeth. Indigenous First Childhood: Between Schooling and Family. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.81, pp.357-372.  Epub Apr 03, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num81-10827.

Although the ethnic communities' struggle turned out, in the twentieth century, in the ethnical and educational project in the General law on education, its implementation has been a challenge, for the communities themselves and for teacher-training universities alike. This work shows a pedagogical practice that became investigative because it re-structured itself to become an insurgent pedagogy. It also led us to educational ethnography as a methodology which helped us recognize ways of being and living for and with the territory of the Achagua and Piapoco indigenous communities from La Victoria-Umapo resguardo, in Puerto López (Meta, Colombia), who allowed us to unlearn our own pedagogical "colonizing" practices. The article gives an account of the research process of the pedagogical practice with first childhood children who attend the multi-grade rural schoo located in the middle of the resguardo, and whose teachers were trained at the university from westernized structures. Consequently, the school seems stopped in time. Its practices and organization respond-according to its own imaginary- to the demands of a Western educational regime that guarantees the community the learning of Spanish and the basic skills and knowledge to join the social and economic system of the region. Therefore, early childhood indigenous and white children who attend school are subjects of Western learning.

Keywords : early childhood; indigenous populations; school-family relationship; ethnicity-education; educators; worldview.

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