Abstract

RENGIFO-CARPINTERO, John Alexis  and  DIAZ-CAICEDO, Carmen Helena. Singing as a Pedagogical Practice in Communities of African Descent in the Pacific Region of Colombia. Pensam. palabra obra [online]. 2018, n.19, pp.62-75. ISSN 2011-804X.

This paper is the result of a research process that started in 2010 in Comuna Trece, at the Los Lagos I neighborhood in Cali, with folk group Integración Pacífico. It defends the transforming social role of singing as a pedagogical practice in the ancestral communities of the Colombian Pacific. Thus, it is supported by the conceptual constructs of: the notion of pedagogical practice, teacher and teaching, borrowed from the research group on the history of pedagogy in Colombia. The methodology used was the decolonial one, through which it was possible to rescue the historical, political, and above all, the pedagogical value of singing. Finally, this endeavor will reveal the following results: first, that black communities from the Colombian Pacific have been able to metamorphose the pain, the exile and the uprooting, through the pedagogical and restorative value of song; second, that singing is a pedagogical practice, that is, that it can be taught and learned; third, that female singers are teachers who transmit, preserve and invigorate ancestral knowledge; and, finally, that, in the Colombian Pacific area, the educational act occurs outside the nationally-instituted limitations.

Keywords : teaching practice; teacher; teaching; resistance; liberation.

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